Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.99

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:26:39 +1200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  >                                  It cannot be changed without changes
>  > elsewhere; e.g., report-emacs-bug knows about the numbering scheme,
>  > and so do the files involved in setting the minor version number
>  > during the build process.
>  >
>  > In other words, I think it's too late to change this for Emacs 22.
> 
> Well report-emacs-bug just seems to look for three dots:
> 
> (string-match "\\..*\\..*\\." "22.0.98.1")

Yes, and you seemed to be suggesting that we change that, so that now
non-pretest builds are X.Y.Z.1,2,3,... while pretest versions are
A.B.C.D.E.1,2,3...

> What are the other files?

loadup.el, for example, and make-dist.  Probably others as well, I
don't remember.

> Do they just test for three dots also?

Some do, some don't, please take a look.