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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:38:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8bs76x8.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831r8oqy6j.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 26 Jun 2021 21:27:00 +0300")

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    >> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021
    >> 19:05:55 +0100
    >> 
    >> The current emacs development version is "28.0.5".

    > You mean, "28.0.50", right?

Yes.

    >> I know that "28" is the value of the emacs-major-version variable
    >> and "0" is the value of the emacs-minor-version variable. I
    >> assume "5" is also the value of a variable, but what's its name?

    > It's not a variable.  The version string comes from configure.ac,
    > see AC_INIT there.

Thanks. I see the AC_INIT contains the whole emacs-version dotted string
28.0.50 and not just the last two digits.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-26 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-26 18:05 Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...? Colin Baxter
2021-06-26 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 19:38   ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2021-06-27  5:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28  3:56 ` mrf
2021-06-28  4:22   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-28  5:29     ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-28  5:30     ` mrf
2021-06-28  5:14   ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-29 10:07   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-29 22:11     ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver (was: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?) Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 19:49       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 20:00         ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 21:30           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06  9:28             ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06  9:54               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 11:49                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06 16:29                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 17:00                   ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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