From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year? 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Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year? Even Microsoft with its 6.5235345532543 numbers are better than yours. I especially like e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version MediaWiki|1.17wmf1 (r82223) So do contemplate providing _version information down to the commit granularity_ like the MediaWiki people do ... available right there to the report-emacs-bug command, etc. Don't expect the user to have to explain what time of what day he got his copy from where, when asked for more details than "24.0.50.1".