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Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ?


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:55:42 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> NEWS is currently +12000 lines.
>
> Maybe we should move the +4000 lines related to 20.x to ONEWS.

I must say that having news for old releases in one file is very
inconvenient.  For example, isearching it for some newest feature,
the user can't see if the string that isearch displays is in the
latest version or in one of older versions!

Ideally, NEWS should have a version number in its extension:

NEWS.20.1
NEWS.20.2
NEWS.20.3
NEWS.20.4
NEWS.20.5
NEWS.20.6
NEWS.20.7
NEWS.21.1
NEWS.21.2
NEWS.21.3
NEWS.21.4

If having too many files is undesirable, then files for only _major_
releases could be created, with the NEWS file containing news for the
latest _minor_ release:

NEWS      -- news for 21.4
NEWS.21   -- news for 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
NEWS.20   -- news for all 20.*

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/





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