From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25590: Remove build number from emacs-version variable
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 18:45:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sa8tpkgq1t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r33e8doa.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:15:33 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If we do the above, we should make sure version-comparison functions
> treat something like "25.2 (build 4)" correctly.
I disagree that this is desirable.
>> (I am not aware of any other software that even has a concept of "build
>> number".)
>
> It's actually part of a version number (which many other projects
> have, e.g., GDB just released version 7.12.1), except that we never
> release such versions, they exist only on end-users' machines. Other
> than that, there's nothing in it which is special to Emacs.
I don't understand the comparison. A micro version number
(major.minor.micro) is not the same thing as Emacs's build number.
This is precisely the confusion that arises with Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-05 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-31 17:55 bug#25590: Remove build number from emacs-version variable Glenn Morris
2017-02-04 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 23:45 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-02-06 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-06 18:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-02-06 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-06 20:24 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-02-07 4:40 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-07 6:23 ` Glenn Morris
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