Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 for editors/emacs-snapshot

[Van L <van@scratch.space>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:

> 1)
>
>   Take the emacs26 package, change the version, and run make distinfo.
>
>   Fix up any issues with the unpack dir being different from the name,
>   e.g. emacs-26.2rc1.tar.gz might unpack to emacs-26.2 without the rc1
>   suffix.
>
>   Try to build, and fix anything that's necessary.
>
>   This approach is basically what somebody updating the package would
>   do, except that there is the extra step of maybe managing rc suffixes.
>
>8--- [snip]
>
> None of these are trivial.   I expect that 26.1 to 26.2 is not a lot of
> structural changes, so I would try option 1 first.
>

Thanks for the advice. I will try 1 first.