Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears that normal release procedures have been bypassed in > releasing 21.4. > > CVS contains no tags for 21.4, but it appears to have been created > from EMACS_21_3 except for movemail.c. > > This is unfortunate, as we almost released 21.4 a year ago to fix a > build problem with recent versions of GCC on Windows, and a few other > "annoying bugs" that are fixed on the EMACS_21_1_RC branch. > > The discussion is here: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/2004-02/msg00028.html > > Instead, I think I tracked down an older copy of gcc to compile the > release, and checked in the changes needed for recent versions of > gcc in case there was a future release from the branch. I upgraded > gcc again after that, and did not expect to need it again now that > the bug is fixed in all current branches of CVS. I was not expecting > an Ad-Hoc release to be made like this.
Nobody expected it. It was a special situation that arose. The way Richard has described it, I don't think that we can at all rule out that a similar situation might happen again. The solution would seem to have one branch where critical fixes are applied to regardless of whether a release is anticipated. I am not sure this would be something that in general would warrant the effort. This would have to be estimated by those that are capable of actually rolling a release. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
