From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64715 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zlatko Calusic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Version numbers of unreleased stable and development versions Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:57:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87ps4lds1z.fsf@magla.zg.iskon.hr> References: <87k5x9msyz.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180357067 10340 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2007 12:57:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 12:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnus , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen To: Reiner Steib Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13226@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 28 14:57:45 2007 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 4.50) id 1HsenA-000695-IN for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 28 May 2007 14:57:44 +0200 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 1Hsen0-0001j9-0H; Mon, 28 May 2007 07:57:34 -0500 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 1Hsemy-0001is-1N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 May 2007 07:57:32 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hsemw-0002rA-Tg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 May 2007 07:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mxout2.iskon.hr ([213.191.128.81] ident=qmailr2) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hsemw-0005Dd-00 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 14:57:30 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 20118 invoked from network); 28 May 2007 14:57:29 +0200 X-Remote-IP: 213.191.142.123 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO mx.iskon.hr) (213.191.142.123) by mxout2.iskon.hr with SMTP; 28 May 2007 14:57:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 22772 invoked from network); 28 May 2007 14:57:29 +0200 X-AVScan: ClamAV X-Remote-IP: 213.191.128.133 Original-Received: from lan.iskon.hr (HELO magla.zg.iskon.hr) (213.191.128.133) by mx.iskon.hr with SMTP; 28 May 2007 14:57:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8582 invoked by uid 1000); 28 May 2007 14:57:28 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJ1BMVEUAAABNIxCTRh9lLxXY 0cuva0MHBQScUCmCOxmpWTL///8gEAk8Gw1gSXqgAAACWElEQVQ4y43TQW/TMBQAYHPpGS9CVCKX uRt1BJfVEhi0yxiwqTuh1VrbU7nkEi7rqLxMuzQB1UhcqFQFc0PrhLRxmYamSu6lbJUmmh+F02nE 6UDiHSLFX+JnP/uBo38E+B8o/xX6z3fO7RGr3ICViUpiWJ+B/sRtuJ6WcRb622cAuDqUqmfgYOIC kJvCOAMbSkMinjrZM0BnuA41vGPCmf421g8X5NSwnMKh641oc1nFGj21l8LXxuuOlJgIEU489SuF Y/fSlzLi3JeFM3WRwkv3bqRFR2/rnvfDAK/kyx5jkjE2rzKQL+rxaWybsOHlubyS2ryZ4/hNwJHf k9JnbCc24PtpJ2qiYpHrJFvLxlQHAwHtmIbQKrHaR2Mfh4M2nKjztvJGc7WHT41aDUJbqcG+ck9I b9+En+14GM9t6uO9bO3XU2Al3IbWkyqEedT7VEmhWuLNAC3WkHAY+1wr/4H1gEvZXWQyqUm3m/6x TpEvu71prWSzlcIzHDgSO6yr68v9dyl8wwKh8ByiIkfIXzA2WBAC4xg6SIdjrKovRIB2l/My0hAY +zh6oacihAaSI6dTNu/uLsLEIuRDhN5mL3U1KEBClkoRWpgBIQQRSHD+JQub+krZowAjVJ4BqoVq 6Mw0TjUvirwVIfx+FpYIDYMmEgs3AI5saFG6N9Nq1bYdq2Fs0WxzrpziEMZqckKDigmrOb0kCG3b KnYeVVJYa+QwCgmBscWdB+DiGtYaAFAkNEAaaQAXV2e+qtsVDBIgGvz7SfeOy0fgVTIObuGkVuRx 5N+evoPT3+mFUpdZ4E28AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "Mon, 28 May 2007 11:03:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64715 Archived-At: Didier Verna writes: > Reiner Steib wrote: > >> Releases (beta and devel) from Gnus repository and CVS versions: >> >> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------. >> | Standalone | CVS || No Gnus | CVS | Date / notes | >> | Gnus vers. | v5-10 || | trunk | | >> | beta rel. | || devel | | | >> |------------|---------||---------|-------|------------------------------| >> | | 5.10.8 || | | | >> | | || 0.6 | | 2007-05-01 | >> | | 5.10.8 || | 0.7 | today | >> | 5.10.9 | || 0.9 | | close to release of Emacs 22 | >> | | 5.10.10 || | 0.10 | | >> | 5.10.11 | || 0.11 | | ? | >> | | 5.10.12 || | 0.12 | | >> | 5.10.13 | || 0.13 | | | >> | | 5.10.13 || | 0.14 | | >> `------------------------------------------------------------------------' > > My .02: I've never understood why people like this kind of > numbering scheme. I find them so confusing and inconsistent (John uses > odd/even, Jack uses even/odd, you never know which one is what etc). > > > In my personal projects, I use the following scheme: > > - . beta for development branches > - .. for stable branches > > > Isn't that much more natural and human readable ? I agree with you, completely. I never know what version I'm running, is it the newest one, is it development or stable. Tried few times in the past, but concluded that it's too hard to grok that. :) So, these days I just let Debian maintainer to choose the version for me. :) -- Zlatko