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Re: Installing the Emacs executable
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Installing the Emacs executable |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:49:28 +0300 |
> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:29:53 +0200
>
> Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >
> >> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>> Is this done on purpose? Why isn't the binary named the same as its
> >>> DOC, i.e. emacs-24.3.50.nn?
> >>
> >> I'd rather see the build number removed at all.
> >
> > I agree with you (IIUC what you are saying); I've never found it useful.
> > (IIRC rms is/was a fan of it.)
>
> Like this:
>
> * loadup.el: Don't append build number to emacs-version.
This will overwrite the previous Emacs binary in src as well (and its
DOC in etc), won't it? Do we really want to toss the possibility of
being able to easily run previous builds of the same version?
- Installing the Emacs executable, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/16
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Andreas Schwab, 2013/04/16
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/16
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/16
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Andreas Schwab, 2013/04/19
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/19
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/19
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/19
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Stefan Monnier, 2013/04/19
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Andreas Schwab, 2013/04/19
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/20
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Andreas Schwab, 2013/04/20
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/20
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Andreas Schwab, 2013/04/20
- Re: Installing the Emacs executable, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/20