From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean-Christophe Helary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: version vs edition numbers in Emacs manuals Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 12:07:49 +0900 Message-ID: References: <0d07699b-0b9f-fd44-11a2-9058c9eaa02b@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.0 \(3594.4.19\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="149174"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: Emacs development discussions Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 02 04:08:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQjlz-000chY-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:08:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44964 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQjly-0001Mb-Lt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQjlm-0001KZ-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQjlj-0005ZQ-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]:44045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQjlj-0005DW-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:08:03 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 182.251.136.249 Original-Received: from [172.20.10.2] (KD182251136249.au-net.ne.jp [182.251.136.249]) (Authenticated sender: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80E371C0005 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2019 03:07:57 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <0d07699b-0b9f-fd44-11a2-9058c9eaa02b@cs.ucla.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3594.4.19) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.197 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241716 Archived-At: > On Nov 2, 2019, at 9:35, Paul Eggert wrote: >=20 > I noticed Glenn's comment at the start of doc/emacs/emacs.texi that = EDITION (which was "Seventeenth") offers nothing that EMACSVER = ("27.0.50") does not. I'd go further and say that it's a net minus, = since it's confusing to have competing version numbers for the same = thing. >=20 > Although separating software version numbers from book edition numbers = made sense in the old days when most users had only low-resolution = displays and/or printers, nowadays the practice appears to be more = trouble than it's worth. So I installed the attached patch, to switch = the main Emacs manuals to simple version numbers like "27.0". Comments = welcome. This makes a lot of sense. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune