From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.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: Mon, 24 May 2010 06:57:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E6FC6AF80B35478AABDFAC317CEDA480@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhblxe93w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > I have multiple Emacs versions installed (multiple binaries), and
> > I expect each of them to faithfully have its own set of doc strings,
> > that is, specific to the particular build. Trying to deal with doc
> > bugs and improvements would be problematic without this distinction.
>
> Please explain more precisely your use case.
?
The doc a user sees for a given version should be up-to-date and reflect that
version faithfully. That's all.
> > That concern might be irrelevant to having "a single DOC
> > file" in the source tree - dunno. I'm not concerned about
> > the build process, but I would not want multiple binaries
> > of Emacs on my machine to show the same set of doc strings.
>
> They already show the same docstrings for all non-preloaded files.
If a doc string has changed between versions then the versions should not show
the same doc string (which is the case currently). That's appropriate: the doc
strings for a given version should be up-to-date, reflecting that version.
As I say, perhaps the proposed change will not affect that. Just asking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 13:57 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
2010-05-23 14:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-24 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-24 13:57 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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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