From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:57:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5E9E2370-F371-46DE-A970-3FB825E90BBF@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274385531 17745 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 19:58:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:58:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jeff Kowalczyk , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 21:58:49 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 1OFBsp-0002fh-I8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:58:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFBsa-0003OD-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37936 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFBsS-0003O2-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFBsJ-0002CV-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:33426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFBsH-0002CE-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o4KJvgUM032563; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5F2CD70046; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:57:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5E9E2370-F371-46DE-A970-3FB825E90BBF@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Thu, 20 May 2010 13:12:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3539=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:124969 Archived-At: > I'm not opposed to someone doing the work; I just couldn't effectively > do it myself at the time, and didn't need it for my work. And for > Emacs maintenance itself, there are scripts and lisp packages (not > distributed in the Emacs package) that know where the version strings > live and how to update them consistently, so there hasn't been a big > demand to reduce them all to one master source location. Actually, I'd be happy to see it reduced to just a single location, because it's the second biggest source of conflicts when merging the emacs-23 branch into trunk (tho it's only when the merge includes a change of revision obviously, but that's pretty frequent during the pretest period). Stefan