From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year? Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:14:26 -0500 Message-ID: <87vd0fvfi5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87hbc4f8c2.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298155044 27043 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 22:37:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8054@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 23:37:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqvQV-00012i-C8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqvQU-00020p-K9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44293 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqvPu-0001jD-5u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:36:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqvPs-0005Pe-NY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqvPs-0005Pa-Kg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqv4w-0000r9-NS; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:15:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:15:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8054 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8054-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8054.12981536753241 (code B ref 8054); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:15:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8054) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2011 22:14:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqv4V-0000qD-2Q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:14:35 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqv4S-0000q1-PE for 8054@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:14:33 -0500 Original-Received: from furball ([64.134.67.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1JMEQdR023617 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:14:26 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD61016081E; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:14:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:10:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:15:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44270 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:54 PM, wrote: >> Gentlemen, let's face it, your version number, >> emacs-version "24.0.50.1" >> is a total disaster for use in e.g., report-emacs-bug. > > Yepp. I have suggested to use bzr ids instead. Which is what I am > using in my patched version of EmacsW32 (so I have some code for w32 > for it). > > I think this should be added to the makefiles. It would be rather annoying to change version.el or other working file everything we make a bzr commit, so that's not a good idea. What we could do is to check if Emacs is being run from inside a bzr working directory bound to a savannah.gnu.org location (e.g. trunk), and use vc-bzr-current-revision to find and report that revision number. But such a feature would be pretty limited: it would not apply to anyone working in a feature branch, nor would it apply to those running a "make install"ed Emacs. So it doesn't seem worth the effort.