On 1/19/06, Jens Petersen <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As some of you are probably well aware, Emacs 22 seems to be taking forever > to be released, so some users are getting impatient to see a cvs snapshot > of Emacs included in Fedora since Emacs 21 is getting a bit old now. > > Someone even filed an rfe to have Emacs-20.0.50 in FC5: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176171 > > and quite a number of users have asked for updates to > > http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/ > ;) > > This is kind of a difficult situation on the one hand we don't want to ship a > pre-release if possible or to lessen the "pressure" on upstream to put out a > stable release. On the other hand since there is a reasonable chance that Pressure on Emacs upstream? When has that ever worked? It has always had the opposite effect of causing people to dig in and say its not perfect yet because they just found a small spelling error in the Meta-X translate-armenian-to-swahili-via-urdu that is very very important to all the Emacs users. I would vote for the pre-release.. I would also go with compat-emacs-22 versus emacs22. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
