Re: Enhancing (?) `emacs-version'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:27:38 +0100
> 
> > We already have the variable emacs-repository-version, and
> > report-emacs-bug already includes it in the report.
> 
> Thanks, I had no idea that this exists!  What does it state for
> non-development versions (official, prebuilt pretests or binaries, for
> instance)?

The value is nil then.

> I guess it is (almost) good enough.  I will probably advise
> emacs-version to include that info, though.  Would it be helpful for the
> devs if I do?  Not all bug-related messages are created with
> report-emacs-bug.  Use case: a message to the bug-gnu-emacs list,
> stating that this-and-this bug can be reproduced on that-and-that Emacs
> version.  It might be helpful for me if emacs-version included that info
> automatically.

IME, if the version is reported, it's reported by report-emacs-bug.
But maybe I misremember.