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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 09:19:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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.

I have several co-existing `emacs' executables here, and they coexist
just fine with a single DOC file.  They just all show the same
docstrings, which I wouldn't even consider as an issue.


        Stefan



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