On Jan 7, 2016 11:20 AM, "Michael Albinus" <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Tramp needs its version string at different places. Therefore, the
> >> version is kept only in configure.ac.
> >
> > Would it be possible to keep it in tramp.el instead, and retrieve it
> > using `lm-version'?
>
> No. The whole idea of trampver.el is to keep the version string away
> from tramp.el. If the version string would be generated into
> tramp.el, the development must be applied in tramp.el.in. Not applicable.

I'm not talking about generating the version string into tramp.el.

IIUC, you manually write the version string only in configure.ac. (did I
understand this correctly?)

What I'm saying is: could you write the version string only in tramp.el,
instead of in configure.ac?
You could easily retrieve the version during ./configure with a simple
(grep | sed) or with lm-version (in elisp).

This way tramp.el would still be static (no need for tramp.el.in).