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Emacs. Yeah, it was developed open source, but how many people, honestly, paid any attention at all to the trunk builds before the next major release? http://w
by teilo 17y ago
Emacs. Yeah, it was developed open source, but how many people, honestly, paid any attention at all to the trunk builds before the next major release?
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates
- icey 17y agoTaking a long time between versions isn't the same as going completely dark between versions though, is it? I mean, people could see what was going on in emacs as it was being developed if they were curious. And as far as I'm aware, there weren't significant rewrites between versions.
- jrockway 17y agohow many people, honestly, paid any attention at all to the trunk builds before the next major release How many people used the "stable" version while Emacs 23 was being prepared for release? I don't know of anyone; Emacs 23 had too many useful features for anyone to wait. Notice how Emacs users had the option of using an "unstable" version before it was released, whereas Textmate users don't have that option.