From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancing (?) `emacs-version' Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:33:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8n89ufo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpqc75ju.fsf@mbork.pl> <83egck9xmk.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb5w71l1.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455136471 2302 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 20:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 21:34:21 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTbSu-00069u-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:34:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42889 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTbSt-0005qt-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTbSe-0005q4-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTbSa-00042n-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTbSa-00042e-Ez; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3233 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTbSX-0008Jy-FG; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:33:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vb5w71l1.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:27:38 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199725 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:27:38 +0100 > > > We already have the variable emacs-repository-version, and > > report-emacs-bug already includes it in the report. > > Thanks, I had no idea that this exists! What does it state for > non-development versions (official, prebuilt pretests or binaries, for > instance)? The value is nil then. > I guess it is (almost) good enough. I will probably advise > emacs-version to include that info, though. Would it be helpful for the > devs if I do? Not all bug-related messages are created with > report-emacs-bug. Use case: a message to the bug-gnu-emacs list, > stating that this-and-this bug can be reproduced on that-and-that Emacs > version. It might be helpful for me if emacs-version included that info > automatically. IME, if the version is reported, it's reported by report-emacs-bug. But maybe I misremember.