From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version strings in lisp files? Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:11:36 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <878vhpxjhj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fwbxe34b.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83sjfxgpy8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335017456 28633 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 14:10:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 16:10:51 2012 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 1SLb1U-0008HT-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:10:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb1U-0002PV-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb1N-0002PM-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb1J-0004pD-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:64871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb1B-0004o7-1C; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so1377641wgb.0 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:organization:references :user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=9Ci04KcQnypXOuHYKlTXMk+/dOGITgtM6udL8WOG7hA=; b=PZZmhYD+LJFIpCMfOkQGbLrorwYI25iO8EQs1K7wzkejol1434xi/AKkku+Kw1hok1 ZzzkYql0L8q6ak+WFDvS0y5W+QY91g/8EXYHEpLollkoamHWrSNO3SIvp6P2zH9xtnwo N/G52TCqugXxxn1NsUfrWOrVEn9utamP2LtZ3GhXe+tVJ6h2WrLZs/1YebbgqKCvOsx6 6muOpvKwVx4akHgd1/gNLxj43pzyriA91kVk0RwNR4i9tTVcclCg7h+4MQGOuJXtf1RJ n4ZiEI98Z/YGxyhgtM9h/5SHFglRg0ux43Row8jMsQlNsWIPbxgnSydFLiaq/5xEil4u 5vfA== Original-Received: by 10.180.102.129 with SMTP id fo1mr826230wib.6.1335017426459; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from myhost.localdomain (pha75-11-82-236-86-204.fbx.proxad.net. [82.236.86.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gd4sm9594660wib.6.2012.04.21.07.10.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by myhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CCF0856E; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:11:36 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83sjfxgpy8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:43:59 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.41 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:149907 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Achim Gratz >> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:27:48 +0200 >> >> Bastien (the org maintainer) tells me that Emacs requires a version >> string to be present in org.el, what's the rationale for that? > > I don't know why Bastien said that, Lisp files generally don't need > any version strings in them. I guess we need to ask Bastien to > explain himself. IIRC, during on of the Org>Emacs merge, I was advised to remove version strings from all org*.el/ob*.el files except org.el. Gnus and ERC does this too. So I thought this was related to some policy. But I'm fine with removing this line if it is not required. -- Bastien