Re: Version naming

[Stefan Monnier]

> I suspect, as has been said here before, the main problem is the
> maintainer effort required to make installing minor versions in parallel
> possible; renaming files to include version numbers in every file
> name/path for each release. dpkg doesn't do that for you.

For Emacs, this is a non-issue, since Emacs already includes the release
string in pretty much all the file names (with very chosen exceptions,
such as "bin/emacs").


        Stefan