Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?

[Richard Stallman]

    > A simple fix is to get rid of the DOC-NN.NN.NN madness and just use
    > "DOC" as the file name.  Any objection?

    Would the emacs-NN.NN.NN madness go with it as well?

Using version numbers in the DOC file name (and elsewhere) makes it
possible for multiple Emacs versions to coexist.  And putting the version
numbers in the executables is useful for this too.  You can install
the executable under whatever name you like.