From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:01:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83632iqwpe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5E9E2370-F371-46DE-A970-3FB825E90BBF@raeburn.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274378505 20224 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 18:01:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jtk@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 20:01:42 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OFA3t-0007zx-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:01:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFA3k-0004Cd-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37118 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFA3d-00048A-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFA3V-0002yk-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFA3V-0002yd-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L2Q00I00CPQW700@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:01:11 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.33.125]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L2Q00CWSCPXXZI0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:01:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5E9E2370-F371-46DE-A970-3FB825E90BBF@raeburn.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124968 Archived-At: > From: Ken Raeburn > Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:12:29 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > If you need to pick one place, then I think for now emacs.c is the right place. Until someone moves it again, that is... Why was it moved, anyway? I don't remember any discussions of that, apologies if I missed something. The string was in version.el since forever. The move subtly broke the MS-DOS port, btw, which I could have prevented if I just knew about it coming, which I didn't until now. I guess it's a lost battle, anyway.