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

[Richard Stallman]

    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.

That means only one of them gives the correct doc strings.

I set up a mechanism that has worked fine for decades
and enables each version to display its own doc string.
Please don't break it.