Would it help if a distro included a CVS snapshot? [LWN.net]

Would it help if a distro included a CVS snapshot?

Posted May 23, 2007 5:54 UTC (Wed) by richdawe (subscriber, #33805)
Parent article: Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23)

I ran Emacs CVS built against DJGPP CVS under Windows '98 SE for a while, and I had no major problems with it. This was three or four years ago. But I'm not exactly an Emacs power user.

I think it would help to get some exposure in some distro like Fedora -- take a certain CVS snapshot of Emacs 22 and ship that. It seems to me that there is value in shipping CVS to get Emacs 22 more exposure -- more people using it means more people finding bugs, and contributing patches.

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Debian distro includes a CVS snapshot

Posted May 23, 2007 20:31 UTC (Wed) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

Check out Debian's emacs-snapshot package. M-x version returns
GNU Emacs 22.0.93.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-02-17 on pacem, modified by Debian

True, it's in the unstable section, but I've been using it for months (>= 6) with roughly zero problems.

Would it help if a distro included a CVS snapshot?

Posted May 26, 2007 12:17 UTC (Sat) by richdawe (subscriber, #33805) [Link]

Fedora 7 is going to ship with Emacs 22.