Hi Kévin, Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legoug...@gmail.com> writes:
> Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes: > >>> - Will Emacs's maintenance branch (emacs-27) be updated with Org 9.3.8, >>> so that Emacs 27.2 includes all bugfixes for 9.3? (If so, I can open >>> a new report on Debbugs to track this, as suggested by Stefan K.) >> >> Yes, thanks. > > ACK; see bug#43268! Thanks! >>> - During the development of 9.4, AFAICT, while the "Version:" comment in >>> org.el sayd "9.4-dev", the org-version variable matched the latest >>> tag, i.e. 9.3.x. >>> >>> I therefore couldn't figure out a way to check for 9.4 >>> programmatically. >> >> ... because 9.4 is not yet released - or am I missing something? > > See Emacs's master branch for a counter-example: even though 28.1 is not > out yet, emacs-version says "28.0.50", so one can determine that they're > running on the master branch. Well, yes, but I find that confusing: "I'm using the 28.0.50 version, which looks like an officially released version, while it's not." > It's clearly not a big deal; cf. below. > >> On what commit would I add the "release_x.(y+1)-rc" on master, since >> master is always moving forward? > > If a new major release is immediately merged to the maint branch, it > would be enough to have a followup empty commit on master, and tag that. > > I'm not suggesting to do that though; I don't find empty commits very > elegant. Me neither. > That's fair. My "use-case" was to conditionally swap RET and C-j for > Org<9.4, to palliate the lack of electric-indent-mode. It's far from a > critical problem, and there are other ways for me to solve this (rely on > fboundp, run "make ORGVERSION=9.4"…). OK - let's see if others have similar needs, and maybe we can think about this again. (Also, Kyle has more git-fu that me, so he may be in a better position to decide on this.) Thanks, -- Bastien
