Re: Rmail mbox-format branch

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:56:16PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> OTOH, if we don't do this now, it will need to wait until a very
>> distant next release.
>
> Will the next release (after 21.4) be distant?
>
> I was envisioning just moving the unicode branch to the trunk about 5 minutes
> after 21.4 is released, and immediately going into testing for version 22.

That was my understanding too.


I don't really see why we cannot wait with rmail/mbox until 22.1.
rmail has done fine with BABYL for MANY years -- can't it do one more?

Considering that the new code is said to be mostly UNTESTED (contrary
to Gnus 5.10 which was very well tested), merging it now will
_definitely_ delay the release of 21.4.

If we hope for a 21.4 release in 2004 (rather than 2104), we should
probably NOT do that.

Compare these two schedules (if testing rmail adds 2 months delay):

Release:                When
21.4 without rmail      End 2004
22.1 with rmail         Mid 2005


Release:                When
21.4 with rmail         Mar 2005
22.1                    Nov 2005  (include holiday season)


So 22.1 would be 21.4 with unicode, multi-tty, plus rmail/mbox.
And I don't see why we shouldn't be able to release that in 2005
(which considering the time span between 21.1 and 21.4 isn't distant).


BTW, what happened with the face-remapping for 21.4 ?

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