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1 The theme of the gamma series of 21.4 releases is "oxymoron", that is,
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2 contradiction in terms. Each patchlevel will be assigned a unique
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3 codename from the list below. The rationale for the first should be
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4 obvious.
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6 The second and third are my tributes to Richard Stallman and the early
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7 developers of Lucid Emacs/XEmacs (primarily Jamie Zawinski, but it
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8 also fits Ben Wing which is appropriate to the Mule theme), in
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9 chronological order. I cannot list all the debts this release owes
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10 for individual contributions, but I must credit the fundamental
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11 excellence of the design of [X]Emacs for inspiring the audacious
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12 proposal to add both GTK and Windows/MULE to XEmacs over a period of
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13 two months, and for the success of the GTK merge. Without the
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14 prospect of such a big win, I could not have justified trying to
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15 coordinate a release myself.
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17 The rest of the codenames are in alphabetical order.
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19 N.B. I expect that the Stable Release Maintainer will choose a new
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20 theme for the releases following the promotion of 21.4 from "gamma" to
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21 "stable". So 15 should be enough....
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23 21.4.0: Solid Vapor
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24 21.4.1: Copyleft
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25 21.4.2: Developer-Friendly Unix APIs
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26 21.4.3: Academic Rigor
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27 21.4.3: Artificial Intelligence
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28 21.4.3: Civil Service
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29 21.4.3: Common Lisp
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30 21.4.3: Economic Science
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31 21.4.3: Honest Politician
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32 21.4.3: Informed Management
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33 21.4.3: Military Intelligence
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34 21.4.3: Portable Code
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35 21.4.3: Rational FORTRAN
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36 21.4.3: Reasonable Discussion
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37 21.4.3: Standard C
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39 N.B. Suggestions welcome until shortly before the release. (The
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40 non-incrementing version number is precisely to make it easy to add
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