From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing the Emacs executable Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:12 -0400 Message-ID: <31mwsubb7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83fvyq4es6.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3ny1hl3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366397835 14706 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2013 18:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 19 20:57:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGUp-0003Ho-0p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45993 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGUo-0002TK-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGUm-0002TF-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGUl-0006zH-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGUl-0006zC-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGUi-0004Su-TR; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:57:12 -0400 X-Spook: cryptographic Gazprom SAPO 9/11 DES event security X-Ran: ikX^}0R`^h{^y]wx@Cx},$J41]235q7nQP4C]|+2.I,KMM* (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:49:28 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159020 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > This will overwrite the previous Emacs binary in src as well (and its > DOC in etc), won't it? Do we really want to toss the possibility of > being able to easily run previous builds of the same version? Well yes, that is basically the motivation for the build number existing, as I understand it. As I said, I have personally never found this a useful feature. Does any other project do this? Maybe it could be a configure option (probably madness). :)