Re: No calc in pretest?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 19:51:36 +0200
> 
> >> Having faster development cycles has always been one of my gripes with
> >> emacs, new features shouldn't have to wait 3-4 years.
> >
> > I'd say that's an exaggeration: not even 1 year has passed since v21.1, 
> > so new features in CVS head now could be available within the next 6 
> > months, say.  That's slightly more than 1 year since 21.1, the last 
> > non-bugfix release.
> 
> I based it on what can be verified, released versions:
> 
> Emacs 13: cannot find traces of this
> Emacs 14: 1984?
> Emacs 15: 1985
> Emacs 16: 1986
> Emacs 17: 1986
> Emacs 18.1: earlier than 1986-11-23?
> Emacs 18.31: 1986-11-23
> Emacs 18.59: 1992-10-30
> Emacs 19.1: between 1992-10-30 and 1993-05-22?
> Emacs 19.7: 1993-05-22
> Emacs 19.34b: 1996-08-21
> Emacs 20.1: 1997-09-15
> Emacs 21.1: 2001-10-20
> 
> 3-4 year seem to be optimistic, rather than exaggerated, if looking at
> the last 15 years.

This seems to be some misunderstanding: new features do not wait until
the next major version, they wait until the next _non-bugfix_ release.
In other words, the new features now in CVS head will not need to wait
until Emacs 22.1.