Re: proper url for emacs 24 alpha for Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 04:36:21 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> which is the proper url for alpha version of emacs 24 for Windows?
> 
> there's
> 
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
> and
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

The former (cf. "pretest" in the name).

> the latter seems to have funny version numbers. e.g.
> 
> both of these
> 
>  emacs-20120507-r108144-bin-i386.zip         07-May-2012 03:05   57M
>  emacs-20120514-r108224-bin-i386.zip         14-May-2012 08:36   57M
> 
> says
> GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-05-14 on MARVIN
> 
> • 24.1.50 ??
> • and both having the same version?

These are development snapshots from the Bazaar trunk.  The number
after the "r" is the Bazaar revision number on the trunk.  24.1.50
means that it's post 24.1.