[AUCTeX-devel] Re: 11.84

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2006-09-29) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure.  Does one still have to change the version number
>> manually at various places before making a release?
>
> Yes, but at least the manual should now be catered for.  We probably
> still have configure.ac, preview/configure.ac, RELEASE, auctex.spec,
> tex-ref.tex, preview-latex.texi (though this will be gone when we pass
> the recent AUCTeX manual changes to preview-latex).
[...]
> configure.ac and preview/configure.ac can probably be made to pick up
> the version from somewhere, but it sounds like work and maybe a
> hen/egg problem.  If RCS strings are to be used there, they need to
> get manipulated exclusively by m4 as far as I can see: at the time
> this is relevant, the shell is not yet being run.

Reiner's code in Gnus simply uses a few sed calls in a make target.

-- 
Ralf