From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
raeburn@raeburn.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 15:44:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikjQJ45bfOHZW218cuTYiK_vv085UbtVDikpx4a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4ohyiwqn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> A simple fix is to get rid of the DOC-NN.NN.NN madness and just use
>>> "DOC" as the file name. Any objection?
>> Would the emacs-NN.NN.NN madness go with it as well?
>
>> Using version numbers in the DOC file name (and elsewhere) makes it
>> possible for multiple Emacs versions to coexist.
>
> I have several co-existing `emacs' executables here, and they coexist
> just fine with a single DOC file. They just all show the same
> docstrings, which I wouldn't even consider as an issue.
If someone think that is problematic then perhaps Emacs could look for
DOC-NN.NN.NN first and use that if it happens to exist (i.e. is copied
by the user).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-23 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-20 16:57 Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree? Jeff Kowalczyk
2010-05-20 17:12 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-05-20 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-21 1:39 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-05-21 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-21 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-21 21:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-22 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-22 2:24 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-05-22 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-22 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-22 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-23 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-23 13:44 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-05-23 14:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-24 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-24 13:57 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-24 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-24 14:25 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-24 13:58 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-05-24 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-24 14:50 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-05-24 14:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-24 15:38 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-24 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-21 5:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2010-05-20 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
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