From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Kowalczyk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274374666 3979 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 16:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:57:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 18:57:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OF943-0000xA-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 18:57:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF942-0003YD-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37457 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF93t-0003Wh-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF93m-0001ki-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF93m-0001kK-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 12:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF93h-0000mT-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 18:57:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 24-216-252-176.dhcp.mdfd.or.charter.com ([24.216.252.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 18:57:21 +0200 Original-Received: from jtk by 24-216-252-176.dhcp.mdfd.or.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 18:57:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.216.252.176 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100407 Gentoo Firefox/3.6.3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:124965 Archived-At: Gentoo GNU/Linux's packaging of emacs bzr trunk recently adapted to a bzr changeset that removed one of the several copies of emacs-version (e.g. "24.0.50") found in the source tree [1]. Can one of these locations in the source tree (i.e. emacs.c or configure.in) be designated as the canonical location for packagers to find the version string? Thanks, Jeff Kowalczyk [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320021