Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-04-18 12:00:50 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:08 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? AFAIK, that's the most recent stable release of GNU Emacs, That's not true. Emacs 21 was crashing quite often, had lots of bugs and didn't support copy-paste of Unicode characters. When I switched to Emacs 22 (emacs-snapshot), all these problems disappeared. stable release has nothing to do with perceived stability. It merely refers to the last non-developmental release. You might perceive Emacs 22 as stable but it hasn't even been released yet. As it has been noted, if one wants to use an Emacs 22 pre-release version, grab emacs-snapshot from sid. (Emacs 22 looks a whole lot better when configured with --with-gtk than Emacs 21 too ;-) -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:08 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? AFAIK, that's the most recent stable release of GNU Emacs, there are emacs-snapshot packages of version 22 available in testing. At least at the moment, it wouldn't be hard to backport, or directly install, these on Etch. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:08 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? AFAIK, that's the most recent stable release of GNU Emacs Yup, etch's release beat emacs's by a nose: http://lwn.net/Articles/229825/ there are emacs-snapshot packages of version 22 available in testing. I've been running emacs-snapshot for months now, and it's been solid. -- Best wishes, Max Hyre signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:29:20 -0400, Max Hyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:08 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? AFAIK, that's the most recent stable release of GNU Emacs Yup, etch's release beat emacs's by a nose: http://lwn.net/Articles/229825/ there are emacs-snapshot packages of version 22 available in testing. I've been running emacs-snapshot for months now, and it's been solid. The package has been orphaned for about a month and it doesn't seem as if a maintainter will pick it up. So it is no longer in sync with Emacs CVS. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
On 2007-04-18, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, that's the most recent stable release of GNU Emacs, there are emacs-snapshot packages of version 22 available in testing.=20 I just checked apt-cache, and there's no such package in testing. Checking the debian package search website shows emacs-snapshot is only in unstable. Where did you get a testing version? Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
On 2007-04-18 12:00:50 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:08 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? AFAIK, that's the most recent stable release of GNU Emacs, That's not true. Emacs 21 was crashing quite often, had lots of bugs and didn't support copy-paste of Unicode characters. When I switched to Emacs 22 (emacs-snapshot), all these problems disappeared. -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.org/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:17 +, Tyler Smith wrote: I just checked apt-cache, and there's no such package in testing. Checking the debian package search website shows emacs-snapshot is only in unstable. Where did you get a testing version? My mistake, it's only available in unstable. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
Seb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The package has been orphaned for about a month and it doesn't seem as if a maintainter will pick it up. So it is no longer in sync with Emacs CVS. There are updated packages on http://emacs.orebokech.com/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:59:33PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:17 +, Tyler Smith wrote: I just checked apt-cache, and there's no such package in testing. Checking the debian package search website shows emacs-snapshot is only in unstable. Where did you get a testing version? My mistake, it's only available in unstable. my understanding is that any package like -cvs, -snapshot,-current, etc. is never meant to migrate to testing or stable, it only for unstable/sid users. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?
Dear all, I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? Best regards, Yuwen
