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| 1 The theme of the gamma series of 21.4 releases is "oxymoron", that is, | |
| 2 contradiction in terms. Each patchlevel will be assigned a unique | |
| 3 codename from the list below. The rationale for the first should be | |
| 4 obvious. | |
| 5 | |
| 6 The second and third are my tributes to Richard Stallman and the early | |
| 7 developers of Lucid Emacs/XEmacs (primarily Jamie Zawinski, but it | |
| 8 also fits Ben Wing which is appropriate to the Mule theme), in | |
| 9 chronological order. I cannot list all the debts this release owes | |
| 10 for individual contributions, but I must credit the fundamental | |
| 11 excellence of the design of [X]Emacs for inspiring the audacious | |
| 12 proposal to add both GTK and Windows/MULE to XEmacs over a period of | |
| 13 two months, and for the success of the GTK merge. Without the | |
| 14 prospect of such a big win, I could not have justified trying to | |
| 15 coordinate a release myself. | |
| 16 | |
| 17 The rest of the codenames are in alphabetical order. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 N.B. I expect that the Stable Release Maintainer will choose a new | |
| 20 theme for the releases following the promotion of 21.4 from "gamma" to | |
| 21 "stable". So 15 should be enough.... | |
| 22 | |
| 23 21.4.0: Solid Vapor | |
| 24 21.4.1: Copyleft | |
| 25 21.4.2: Developer-Friendly Unix APIs | |
| 26 21.4.3: Academic Rigor | |
| 27 21.4.3: Artificial Intelligence | |
| 28 21.4.3: Civil Service | |
| 29 21.4.3: Common Lisp | |
| 30 21.4.3: Economic Science | |
| 31 21.4.3: Honest Politician | |
| 32 21.4.3: Informed Management | |
| 33 21.4.3: Military Intelligence | |
| 34 21.4.3: Portable Code | |
| 35 21.4.3: Rational FORTRAN | |
| 36 21.4.3: Reasonable Discussion | |
| 37 21.4.3: Standard C | |
| 38 | |
| 39 N.B. Suggestions welcome until shortly before the release. (The | |
| 40 non-incrementing version number is precisely to make it easy to add | |
| 41 new oxymorons.) | |
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