Re: CC Mode version number for Emacs 25.2

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Noam.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > Hello, Emacs.

> > The version of CC Mode within Emacs 25.1 is 5.33.  This is unfortunate,
> > since that version is at a much earlier stage of development than the
> > standalone CC Mode release 5.33.

> > This conflict in the use of "5.33" has led to some confusion amongst
> > people reporting bugs.

> > I would thus like to change the version number in Emacs 25.2 to
> > "5.32.99", to minimise further confusion.  I think it would be best to
> > make an entry about this in NEWS, too.  Incidentally, the actual code in
> > CC Mode in the Emacs 25 has not changed since the realease of 25.1.

> > Does anybody have any objections to this renumbering?


> Wouldn't it make more sense to bump the standalone version to 5.34
> rather than moving the builtin version backwards?

Not really.  Standalone 5.33 has already been released, and its use of
the version number is "correct".  Emacs 25.1's use of "5.33" for CC Mode
was a mistake.  I would like to correct that mistake for 25.2.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).