Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, stefankangas@gmail.com, dmitry@gutov.dev,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:52:54 +0000
> 
> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> >
> >> May you elaborate about thorough testing?
> >
> > If tarballs are released too frequently, users will never test a single
> > tarball to the degree necessary for confidence to be vested in their
> > reliability.  Our (already desultory) testing effort will quickly fall
> > into disarray, where everyone will be testing not one tarball, but one
> > of many dozens.
> 
> These tarballs will be mostly the same, as they will only differ by
> bugfixes. So, testing different "bugfix" tarball versions will only risk 
> differing via some bugs being already fixed in newer versions. The
> worst-case scenario is when some bugfix introduces another bug, but
> AFAIK it is already ensured that such things almost never happen.
> 
> So, I do not think that having multiple bugfix versions around will pose
> a significant problem.

I think you have a very naïve view of the effect of bugfixes in Emacs.
What you think doesn't happen actually happens all the time.