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: Installing the Emacs executable Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:11:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83ehea4a84.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fvyq4es6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366135880 21049 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 18:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 20:11:24 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 1USALi-0000N4-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:11:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USALh-0001BR-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USALf-0001BG-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USALa-00059g-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:34604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USALa-00057p-1J; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLD00M000QC1S00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:10:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLD00MUC1660F50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:10:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:158957 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:20:33 -0400 > > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > >> Is this done on purpose? Why isn't the binary named the same as its > >> DOC, i.e. emacs-24.3.50.nn? > > > > I'd rather see the build number removed at all. > > I agree with you (IIUC what you are saying); I've never found it useful. > (IIRC rms is/was a fan of it.) It could make sense if we kept the old builds, like we do in the build tree. Anyway, I understand that I didn't miss anything; if/when this is fixed on Posix platforms, the Posix-style Windows build will get the same automagically. Thanks.