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
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.
17 The rest of the codenames are in alphabetical order.
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 or so should be enough....
25 21.4.2: Developer-Friendly Unix APIs
26 21.4.3: Academic Rigor
27 21.4.4: Artificial Intelligence
30 21.4.7: Economic Science
31 21.4.8: Honest Recruiter
32 21.4.9: Informed Management
33 21.4.10: Military Intelligence
34 21.4.11: Portable Code
35 21.4.12: Rational FORTRAN
36 21.4.13: Reasonable Discussion
37 21.4.14: Security Through Obscurity
38 21.4.15: Stable Release Maintainer
40 21.4.17: Successful IPO
41 21.4.18: Sufficiently Smart Compiler
43 N.B. Only incredibly redeeming suggestions can be accepted now.