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Re: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?
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mrf |
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Re: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...? |
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Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:30:00 +0300 |
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mu4e 1.5.8; emacs 27.2 |
Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes:
> [ In the past, Emacs *executables* had versions numbers of the form
> NN.MM.BB (or NN.MM.OO.BB for non-release versions) where BB was a "build
> number", i.e. something that gets incremented every time the user builds
> Emacs again from the same directory. We're not using that any
> more, tho. ]
>
>
> Stefan
Nice! and by the way I was talking in general not in relation to emacs
so I mention karl fogel book where he also discuss that technique to
append build number or hash.