emacs 22 and FC

[Jens Petersen]

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
Emacs 22.1 may be released before fc6 it would be good to get it tested as much
as possible early.  Of course if it then were not to be released in time for
fc6 we would be in a sticky situation.  So my take on this is to wait and see
and hope it will be officially released in time for FC6 -- in the meantime I
will try to update my snapshot packages on people to lessen the screaming. :)

But I just thought I'd ask what other people think on this?

Jens

ps An alternative would be to add say an emacs22 package to Extras but since we
tend to frown on this kind of thing it would probably just set a bad precedent.