# ChangeLog for app-editors/xemacs-gamma # Copyright 2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/xemacs-gamma/ChangeLog,v 1.6 2002/12/17 19:11:21 vapier Exp $ 06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees : changed sparc ~sparc keywords *xemacs-gamma-21.4.8 (10 May 2002) 10 May 2002; Matthew Kennedy ChangeLog, xemacs-gamme-21.4.8.ebuild, files/digest-xemacs-gamme-21.4.8 : Removed xemacs-gamma-21.4.7.ebuild, added xemacs-gamma-21.4.8.ebuild. *xemacs-gamma-21.4.7 (7 May 2002) 7 May 2002; Matthew Kennedy ChangeLog, xemacs-gamma-21.4.7.ebuild, files/Xemacs.desktop-gentoo.patch, files/digest-xemacs-gamma-21.4.7, files/emodules.info-gentoo.patch : XEmacs "gamma" ebuild. New ebuild. From http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/index.html#Gamma: "The gamma series of releases is satisfactorily stable for most sophisticated users. Most Linux or *BSD users should get the best results from the gamma series, and we strongly recommend it to the ``tester'' distributions like NetBSD current, Debian sid, Mandrake Cooker, Red Hat Rawhide, and so on. XEmacs will be ready when they are!" "The gamma series of releases is the candidate for promotion to a stable series. Although we do not promote the code base to gamma while there are known critical bugs in the code base, to attempt to meet schedules we also do promote fairly quickly once we've fixed the last known critical bug. Everybody does this, and everybody knows that despite the best efforts of the developers, ``point oh'' releases typically still have bugs in them. The gamma concept simply acknowledges this." "The gamma concept allows us to expand our tester base substantially beyond our dedicated beta testers, while warning the administrators or users that we still acknowledge some risk of more or less serious bugs we don't yet know about. It also offers the kinds of users who use ``tester'' Linux distributions a much more featureful application with low, but not absolutely minimal, risk." "The gamma series receives active attention on a daily basis from the core developers. Important bugs that do not imply data loss, including problems with font-locking in C and Lisp modes will be addressed in the gamma series. Low-risk fixes that provide most of the missing functionality are the priority. The primary goal is strictly increasing stability. Improved functionality consistent with improving stability is secondary, and basically limited to the as-yet immature MS Windows port. All changes must be approved by the 21.4 Release Manager, Stephen Turnbull." "Users of the gamma series should read the release announcement, and the NEWS and PROBLEMS files carefully, as many of the known issues will not yet be reflected in the FAQ or Info documentation."