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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 25590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25590: Remove build number from emacs-version variable
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:38:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tpj6rej.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_=qQuWVVuBqGWmoiZOVSigU6m8P=juhNo9epq8nne28A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:34:40 -0500)

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:34:40 -0500
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 25590@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I think the proposal is to go from this:
> 
> emacs-version ;=> "24.5.1"
> (emacs-version) ;=> "GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2015-04-11 on LEG570"
> 
> to this
> 
> emacs-version ;=> "24.5"
> emacs-build-number ;=> 1
> (emacs-version) ;=> "GNU Emacs 24.5 (Build 1) (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2015-04-11 on LEG570"
> 
> i.e., there are no changes in version-comparibility:
>  (version< emacs-version "24.5") continues to work,
>  (version< (emacs-version) "24.5") continues to fail.

Ah, okay.  Sorry for my confusion.

> >> > It's actually part of a version number (which many other projects
> >> > have, e.g., GDB just released version 7.12.1), except that we never
> >> > release such versions, they exist only on end-users' machines.  Other
> >> > than that, there's nothing in it which is special to Emacs.
> >>
> >> I don't understand the comparison. A micro version number
> >> (major.minor.micro) is not the same thing as Emacs's build number.
> >
> > I think it is.
> >
> 
> GDB 7.12.1 is a public release, the official NEWS file documents the
> differences between that and 7.12. For Emacs, there is no well-defined
> difference between 25.1.1 and 25.1.2, it could be different for every
> person who builds it.

Isn't that what I said above?





  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-06 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-31 17:55 bug#25590: Remove build number from emacs-version variable Glenn Morris
2017-02-04 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 23:45   ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-06 15:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-06 18:34       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-02-06 19:38         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-02-06 20:24           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-02-07  4:40         ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-07  6:23           ` Glenn Morris

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