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: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:49:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83k3ny1hl3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fvyq4es6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366397388 9917 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2013 18:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 19 20:49:52 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 1UTGNY-0005vo-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:49:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGNY-0008Tl-Be for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGNU-0008Te-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGNT-0003re-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:39125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UTGNT-0003oI-0i; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLI00100MMQVU00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:49:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLI001KWMYSUL80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:49:40 +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: 80.179.55.175 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:159019 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:29:53 +0200 > > Glenn Morris writes: > > > 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.) > > Like this: > > * loadup.el: Don't append build number to emacs-version. 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?