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Re: Difference between texinfo 4.13 and texinfo 4.13a
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: Difference between texinfo 4.13 and texinfo 4.13a |
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Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:05:38 +0100 |
On 12 August 2015 at 19:59, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:22:56 +0100
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
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>> One thing I've wondered about for a while is what the difference is
>> between the texinfo 4.13 release and the 4.13a release.
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>> I thought I had it figured out: the 4.13a release was an alpha
>> release, that happened to be identical to the released 4.13. But then
>> I noticed that 4.13a was available on ftp.gnu.org, not alpha.gnu.org.
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>> Can anyone solve this mystery?
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> In https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5465 Karl says:
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> "I had missed some files in the 4.13 tarball, hence 4.13a."
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>> While I'm on the subject, what happened to texinfo 4.10? Was it
>> omitted to avoid confusion with texinfo 4.1?
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> Something like that. The pretests were 4.9.9x.
Thanks for enlightening me.