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 10:13:06 -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 1274710409 31537 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2010 14:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:13:29 +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 16:13:27 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 1OGYPG-0006NP-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 16:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGYPF-0007HM-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47176 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGYP9-0007H7-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGYP8-0008Gp-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:18647 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGYP6-0008GP-LS; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:16 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAMMm+ktFpZMM/2dsb2JhbACeEHK/CoUTBIw/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,291,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="64924615" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO alfajor.home) ([69.165.147.12]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 24 May 2010 10:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4F970BA6D7; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 24 May 2010 06:57:07 -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:125170 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's neither precise, nor is it a use case. In any case, IIUC your use-case (which you fail to describe) is unaffected because you don't use several binary executables that share the same source tree, same DOC file and same lisp tree. Stefan