Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2009 1:05 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/15/2009 10:46 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you release a new 1.5 version now then you will have a few weeks at least to work out any wrinkles. So, it might make sense to have a stable version of emacs since the old version apparently had so

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:34:09PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: One question: To follow the standard practice, I should give it a different release number than the 1.7 version, presumably 23.0.92-2. But it seems that all other package maintainers are using higher release numbers for 1.7 than for 1.5.

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2009 12:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: At any rate, I'm rather tired of several YEARS of choosing the 'Exp'erimental version of emacs from setup.exe, all because 22.1-3 works better for me than the 'Stable' version. I'm all for whatever you provide, and will be grateful for whatever you

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:04:10AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/15/2009 12:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: At any rate, I'm rather tired of several YEARS of choosing the 'Exp'erimental version of emacs from setup.exe, all because 22.1-3 works better for me than the 'Stable' version. I'm all for

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2009 10:46 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you release a new 1.5 version now then you will have a few weeks at least to work out any wrinkles. So, it might make sense to have a stable version of emacs since the old version apparently had so many problems. That sounds like a good

[RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
New test release. cd release-2 wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/cygwin-1.7/emacs/setup.hint \ http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/cygwin-1.7/emacs/emacs-23.0.92-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/cygwin-1.7/emacs/emacs-23.0.92-1.tar.bz2 \

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/14/2009 10:22 AM, Ken Brown wrote: New test release. Well, I'm off to a great start. I just realized that I forgot to edit the README to reflect the fact that I'm the new maintainer. When I built the packages a month ago, I thought I was just helping out. Is there still time for me

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 16:52, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/14/2009 10:22 AM, Ken Brown wrote: New test release. Well, I'm off to a great start. I just realized that I forgot to edit the README to reflect the fact that I'm the new maintainer. When I built the packages a month ago, I thought I was just

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Harig
Ken Brown wrote: New test release. cd release-2 wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/cygwin-1.7/emacs/setup.hint \ http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/cygwin-1.7/emacs/emacs-23.0.92-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/14/2009 4:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 14 16:52, Ken Brown wrote: Well, I'm off to a great start. I just realized that I forgot to edit the README to reflect the fact that I'm the new maintainer. When I built the packages a month ago, I thought I was just helping out. Is

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/14/2009 5:57 PM, Mark Harig wrote: In case you were unaware, Emacs version 23.0.93.1 (pre-release test) has been available for a few weeks. It might be worth considering providing both 23.0.92 and 23.0.93 so that you can work out how to maintain two versions: stable and unstable (not

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Harig
Ken Brown wrote: On 5/14/2009 5:57 PM, Mark Harig wrote: In case you were unaware, Emacs version 23.0.93.1 (pre-release test) has been available for a few weeks. It might be worth considering providing both 23.0.92 and 23.0.93 so that you can work out how to maintain two versions: stable and

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:41:30PM -0400, Mark Harig wrote: Ken Brown wrote: On 5/14/2009 5:57 PM, Mark Harig wrote: In case you were unaware, Emacs version 23.0.93.1 (pre-release test) has been available for a few weeks. It might be worth considering providing both 23.0.92 and 23.0.93 so that

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 5/14/2009 7:50 PM: People who are willing to use the not-yet-released Cygwin 1.7 and the not-yet-released Emacs 23 ought to be expecting some instability. Please don't argue with a package maintainer about what