Re: Gnus v5.2 is released

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> What's the difference between Sgnus 0.97 and Gnus 5.2.0 & Gnus 5.2.1?

Lars> The names?  :-)

>> -rw-r--r--  1 larsi       633523 May 26 22:45 sgnus-0.97.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r--  1 larsi       633518 May 26 22:54 gnus-5.2.0.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r--  1 larsi       637552 May 26 23:01 gnus-5.2.1.tar.gz

Lars> 5.2.0 and 0.97 are identical; 5.2.1 includes the etc/gnus-tut.txt
Lars> file but is otherwise the same as the other two.

O.K.  I'm confused, but see the Gnus question in the soon-to-be
released XEmacs FAQ ;-).
	http://www.miranova.com/~steve/xemacs-subsystems.html#Q4_2_1


While we're speaking of version numbers and transitions ...

Could you separate out the Gnus version number from the rest of the
string:
"Gnus v5.2.1"
Eg.  Pull out the 5.2.1 (or whatever) into a separate variable?  (Or
even something akin to emacs-major-version & emacs-minor-version).
I'd like to be able to do things like:
	(concat "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/gnus-" gnus-version-number "/")
or is there already a better way to do this?

Also, once we move on into Red Gnus, will you reset the version
numbering to 0 again, or use the Linux convention of even number
stable, odd number development?  Going to Red Gnus 5.3 might help
reduce some confusion.  And it might not, but it's worth asking.

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