From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: 8054@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:54:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbc4f8c2.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
Gentlemen, let's face it, your version number,
emacs-version "24.0.50.1"
is a total disaster for use in e.g., report-emacs-bug.
Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?
Even Microsoft with its 6.5235345532543 numbers are better than yours.
I especially like e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version MediaWiki|1.17wmf1 (r82223)
So do contemplate providing _version information down to the commit
granularity_ like the MediaWiki people do ... available right there to
the report-emacs-bug command, etc.
Don't expect the user to have to explain what time of what day he got his
copy from where, when asked for more details than "24.0.50.1".
next reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 12:54 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-16 12:54 ` jidanni [this message]
2011-02-16 13:10 ` bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year? Lennart Borgman
2011-02-19 22:14 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-19 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-19 22:23 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-19 22:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-11-22 0:48 ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-23 13:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-11-23 13:24 ` Christoph Scholtes
2012-04-07 19:53 ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-23 13:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-11-24 6:20 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-24 7:06 ` Glenn Morris
2011-02-26 3:04 ` debbugs-submit-bounces
2011-02-26 3:51 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-13 0:26 ` bug#8054: closed (Re: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?) jidanni
2012-04-13 3:00 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-13 18:48 ` bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year? jidanni
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