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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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.

If someone think that is problematic then perhaps Emacs could look for
DOC-NN.NN.NN first and use that if it happens to exist (i.e. is copied
by the user).