Re: Will continue gamma branch for the future?
>>>> "kk" == KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko
<kiri(a)pis.toba-cmt.ac.jp> writes:
kk> At Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:36:33 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull
kk> <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> I recommend that you either make this the primary version for
> ports now, or after one or two more releases. 21.4.4 is
> scheduled for Monday, mostly MS Windows-related changes, and
> there will be a 21.4.5 in about 4 weeks, depending on some
> annoying bugs in the text syntax module used for fontlock, etc.
> 21.4.5 is likely to be the first release or 21.4 designated
> "stable".
kk> Does it means that current gamma one is substantially `stable'
kk> and present ports-current's editors/xemacs21* ports should be
kk> changed up to 21.4.*?
Yes.
> If this doesn't answer your question, I'll be happy to
clarify
> any unclear points.
kk> I want to know that it is meaningless or not both `stable' and
kk> 'gamma' exist in FreeBSD ports-tree -- in other words people
kk> who uses XEmacs-21.1.14 from reasons for expecting reliability
kk> should not be change to XEmacs-21.4.3?
21.4.4 will be out very soon, probably Monday evening Japan time. It
has some important fixes for Cyrillic, Japanese, and fontification in
programming modes.
21.4.5 will be out in a few weeks (around August 20, I hope). It is
likely there will be more fixes for fontification.
I think it is reasonable to make the switch with 21.4.4 for FreeBSD,
which I believe has no known build problems or crashes. A very
convervative maintainer would wait for 21.4.5. After that, 21.1.x
will likely be considered obsolete.
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