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bug#25590: Remove build number from emacs-version variable
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25590: Remove build number from emacs-version variable |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:32:21 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 25590@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 18:45:34 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > If we do the above, we should make sure version-comparison functions
> > treat something like "25.2 (build 4)" correctly.
>
> I disagree that this is desirable.
Can you explain why? My reasoning was that if "25.2.4" is replaced by
"25.2 (build 4)", then Lisp code that compares version (e.g., I have
such code in my .emacs) will not work properly unless the
version-comparison functions are updated to support such values.
> > It's actually part of a version number (which many other projects
> > have, e.g., GDB just released version 7.12.1), except that we never
> > release such versions, they exist only on end-users' machines. Other
> > than that, there's nothing in it which is special to Emacs.
>
> I don't understand the comparison. A micro version number
> (major.minor.micro) is not the same thing as Emacs's build number.
I think it is.