emacs 22 and FC

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

On 1/19/06, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> 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.



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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator