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: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:30 -0400 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274706892 17571 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2010 13:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , raeburn@raeburn.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 15:14:43 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 1OGXUQ-0003y7-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 15:14:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGXUP-00059T-9A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33118 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGXUJ-00059M-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGXUH-00018F-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:20344 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGXUF-00017F-F3; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:31 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEALIY+ktFpZMM/2dsb2JhbACeEXK+GYUTBIw/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,291,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="64923219" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.147.12]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 24 May 2010 09:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2385D8266; Mon, 24 May 2010 09:14:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <6166CD3E801B40E7AA90B8E225B886ED@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 23 May 2010 07:16:14 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:125162 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. > 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. Stefan