emacs-snapshot: 1 year
On August 5th 2005 I uploaded the first version of emacs-snapshot to
unstable. One year and 55 uploads later, we're nearing the 400
installations mark[1] in popcon, with the following subflavour
repartition:
GTK: 55.1%
X11: 32.7%
NoX: 18.6%
(Quite a few installations have more than one subflavour installed,
which explains why the total is higher than 100%.)
Over the past 12 months, a total of 60 bugs have been filed against
emacs-snapshot, 56 of which have been closed (35 by new uploads).
I've assembled a timeline to highlight interesting changes in
emacs-snapshot or Emacs during that time:
Aug 05: Initial emacs-snapshot upload
Aug 25: Versioning scheme changed due to a bug in quinn-diff
Sep 08: emacs-snapshot-el ships with compressed .el files[2][3]
Sep 18: New newsticker.el package; fsync() option; linda overrides
Oct 20: rcirc is included, first IRC client in Emacs; also new savehist.el
Nov 03: .el files are compressed upstream
Nov 11: Font-Lock enabled by default
Nov 17: New Emacs icon; file-name-shadow-mode enabled by default
Dec 15: SPC no longer completes in the minibuffer
Jan 09: IPv6 support
Jan 28: Subflavours: GTK and X11 versions can be installed concurrently[4]
Feb 02: ERC is part of Emacs
Mar 01: New package t-mouse.el
May 19: sarge backport announced
May 24: New ALSA sound interface
Jun 23: emacs-snapshot honors `x-www-browser'
With luck, next year's timeline will include the release of Emacs 22.1.
Until then I'll keep on uploading snapshots every week to keep you all
hooked...
Cheers,
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: :' : Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>
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Footnotes:
[1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?popcon=emacs-snapshot
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2005/09/msg00001.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2005/09/msg00002.html
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2006/01/msg00050.html
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