From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77028 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Starting to bump Gnus version numbers again Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:24:43 -0800 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <8739niktuc.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87mxlro6g2.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298255122 21082 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2011 02:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:25:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25361@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 21 03:25:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrLSg-0000lD-Ii for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PrLSP-0006NF-9y; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:25:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PrLSN-0006Mt-CR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:24:59 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrLSJ-0004b0-9T for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:24:59 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrLSH-0008G4-Um for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:24:53 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrLSH-0000b0-54 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:24:53 +0100 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:24:53 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by baybryj.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:24:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: baybryj.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8CkJbYKto4aTq5x8gmD+32LrJ5E= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77028 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: > So use: > > git tag -a There's a lot of release stuff in the Makefile that hasn't been updated since the CVS days. But do we need all that stuff? That is, is there any point in doing "releases" any more? tarballs and diffs seem kinda antiquated at this point. If people want a specific version of No Gnus, then can just use git to pull it down, can't they? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen