From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: next emacs version? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:05:52 +0900 Message-ID: <87aatziygv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com> <83iq8sigyq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3z0i3nu.fsf@gnu.org> <911BA1D06CEB4306924D0069BA2D3DFF@us.oracle.com> <83bpeki18a.fsf@gnu.org> <83aau4hv38.fsf@gnu.org> <0E10B96B5C814EE8B95B57972F13E189@us.oracle.com> <5E984B3C-4B86-4FA6-8675-4C8501CC2285@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269311766 20197 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 02:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ken Raeburn , "emacs-devel@gnu.org discussions" To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 03:36:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NttyJ-0005AQ-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:36:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NttyJ-00071f-1M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NttyD-00071X-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47898 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NttyC-00071P-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NttyA-0006Yj-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:43398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NttyA-0006Y1-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46611535A8; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:07:15 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9877B1A3800; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:05:52 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a03421eb562b XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122522 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Ken Raeburn wrote: > > > > Unless you want to start putting bzr revision numbers into the emacs version string (which I think is a bad idea), that's going to be the case. > > But perhaps having the bzr version available in another variable in > the build Emacs would be a good idea? There is no such thing as *the* bzr revision number, because (a) revision numbers are supposed to be ordered, but revision numbers on parallel branches cannot be ordered, and (b) revision numbers are not consistent across repositories. It is a good idea to put in the revision ID in a variable (SHA1s are barely tolerable in the version string because of their length, but bzr revision IDs can be much longer), but revision IDs aren't ordered, either. This is not useful for Drew, though.