Will continue gamma branch for the future?

kk> Hi. I'm maintainer & committer of FreeBSD XEmacs ports. Now kk> while I stripped to see XEmacs web and ftp sites, new release kk> version named 21.4.* already released. As long as kk> http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.0.html says, it seems that kk> gamma version will be maintained from hereafter forever. Is kk> that true? If that true, I intend to make xemacs-devel-* ports kk> and commit it. The current state is 21.1.14 is the stable release. There will be one more release, 21.1.15, in this series. We will continue to support it only in the sense that we'll answer usage questions, but it is unlikely that there will be any further releases after that. It should be very easy to update an existing 21.1.* port to 21.1.15 when it is released. The "gamma" branch is the stable candidate. On most platforms in most usages it _is_ stable. There are a few more bugs to shake out, but mostly it is an excellent platform for daily use. Once these bugs have been tracked down, 21.4.x will be designated "stable". The 21.4 series will be maintained, with new releases to fix bugs as appropriate, for at least another year. 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". The beta branch is 21.5, on the CVS trunk. This is very unstable, with API and UI changes in every release. I doubt it would be worth tracking this in a port. This code is unlikely to be released for general usage (ie, "gamma") for several months at current pace of development. If this doesn't answer your question, I'll be happy to clarify any unclear points. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."