From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree? Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 06:57:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5E9E2370-F371-46DE-A970-3FB825E90BBF@raeburn.org><83632iqwpe.fsf@gnu.org><32115842-89C0-4628-9523-C9C209FB4B0D@raeburn.org> <83ocg9ym77.fsf@gnu.org><6166CD3E801B40E7AA90B8E225B886ED@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274709450 27649 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2010 13:57:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , raeburn@raeburn.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 15:57:28 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGY9m-00076x-GO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 15:57:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGY9m-0001WR-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33732 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGY9e-0001WB-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGY9d-00069V-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:37012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGY9b-00069B-H5; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:57:15 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4ODv8KS016254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 24 May 2010 13:57:10 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4ODv1Og004746; Mon, 24 May 2010 13:57:01 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt017.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 262432561274709401; Mon, 24 May 2010 06:56:41 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.160.26) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 24 May 2010 06:56:40 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 Thread-Index: Acr7QwzSIZ7SeAo0Sv+u/Y/jxfO2qgABQ/BQ X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4BFA85B8.000A:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125166 Archived-At: > > 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.