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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).



  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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