From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15875 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: akb427 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: versioning is not pretty Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 22:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <844c1d7a-8f45-492a-a5a1-46284a2580fa@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349675705 15575 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2012 05:55:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 05:55:05 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 07:55:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TL6J6-0000AC-2E for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TL6J0-0004vV-0s for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: by 10.224.213.1 with SMTP id gu1mr12027517qab.7.1349675623651; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.236.155.70 with SMTP id i46mr1588222yhk.3.1349675623627; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l8no30647688qao.0!news-out.google.com!r17ni19qap.0!nntp.google.com!l8no30647684qao.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.174.38.60; posting-account=sSZFDAkAAAB-YtlypKwu0QNQiZCzrruj Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.174.38.60 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:53:43 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:86967 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15875 Archived-At: Gnus versioning is confusing the heck out of me. My platform is Ubuntu 11.10. So far I've determined that there can be gnus 5.10 versions that are newer than 5.11 versions. (XEmacs version 1.93 = gnus 5.10.8, and is no older than Feb 2009, while Ubuntu gnus version 5.11+v0.10 = No Gnus 0.9, and I think is circa 2008). XEmacs just packaged 5.10.10 in June of 2012 (= XEmacs package version 1.95), while Gnu Emacs (in Ubuntu 11.10) ships with 5.13. Is XEmacs packaging massively behind Gnu Emacs packaging? Will I gain cool new features if I switch emacses? Or can I just download a 5.13 someplace and run it in XEmacs? Wikipedia claims 5.10 is Oort and 5.13 is No Gnus. But as I mentioned above, Ubuntu is shipping a 5.11 No Gnus that's older than their 5.10 version, so that has to be at least No Gnus, right? And Wikipedia doesn't mention Ma Gnus, which I gather is the current development version? Will Ma Gnus get a 5.x number on release? How do I download releases using bzr?