Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 11/25/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> There's a difference between changing one file and changing half dozen
> of them.

Sure. But, as it stands now, the release manager does not change any
file. Even lisp/version.el is updated from admin/admin.el.

> Are we at least in agreement that, in principle, anything that's done
> automatically as part of preparing a release is better than the need
> to do that manually?

Of course. :)

> Or are you saying that manual steps are not a
> burden in any way?

No, I'm not saying that.

> Thanks.  This is okay with me, but I'd prefer that the default value
> of VERSION in lib-src/makefile.w32-in be UNKNOWN.  That way, if we
> ever forget to run admin.el, we get the result shouting right in our
> face.

But VERSION is going to be UNKNOWN just the first time. Once the
release manager runs admin.el the first time (for example, when
releasing the 22.0.92 pretest), VERSION will have forever a version
string...

I can change the regexp to

  (rx (and "VERSION" (0+ space) "=" (0+ space)
           (submatch (or "UNKNOWN" (1+ (in "0-9."))))))

but it's a bit of complexity added for one time's sake.

                    /L/e/k/t/u