Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:

> > > People who want to be helpful in pretesting should get the pretest
> > > tarballs.  That's what they are for.
> > >
> > > People who use CVS can be expected to acquire a minimum of knowledge
> > > for that.
> > And how should they get that?
>
> Manuals exist.  I see no point whatsoever in starting a tutorial about
> CVS branches on the Emacs web page.  And I see little reason to act
> surprised that without doing anything, one will continue to update to
> trunk instead of EMACS_22_BASE or any other branch.

I think that you maybe are misunderstanding some things.

- I am uploading the binaries for w32 from the CVS for others to test. I 
do not use the unpatched binaries myself.

- I do not currently want to spend time setting up for doing the same 
thing for the tarballs too.

- There is nothing on the Savanna page mentioning EMACS_22_BASE. I just 
did a fresh checkout and did not get EMACS_22_BASE. I guess that is 
pretty simple to understand (as is nearly everything we can understand 
at all) if one knows CVS. I do not know that.

- If I complain about something I am not doing that because I just want 
to complain. I did find the current situation less useful.