Re: EDITION number

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/11/2018 02:18 PM, Rik wrote:
> jwe,
>
> The EDITION number used in the documentation is the same as the VERSION 
> number according to the documentation for Automake:
>
> |EDITION|
> |VERSION|
>     Both of these macros hold the version number of your program. They
>     are kept separate for clarity. 
>
> Since we want EDITION to be just the base number (4, not 4.3.90) should 
> be post-process the generated version-octave.texi file with sed, or 
> should we just hardcode the EDITION number in the title page of 
> octave.texi and bump it when we make major releases (which isn't that 
> often).

It seems more reliable to generate it automatically if possible.  But  I 
don't think it's something that needs to be done before the current release.

jwe