Re: [SPAM] Re: [updated PATCH] %language declaration

[Paolo Bonzini]

> As a general rule, the manual should explain only the current Bison
> release.  The manual is not a good place to discuss what we might do
> in the future, or what things looked like in the past, as typically
> such discussions overly complicate the explanation of the present
> situation.  Plus, these discussions make the manual harder to maintain
> -- and it's important to keep the manual easy to maintain.

Yes, the problem is that we want to refer to features that were 
introduced since the last version.  We cannot refer to it as 2.3b, 
because the extracted code would be rejected by the current Bison 
(2.3a+).  Joel proposed to have a mechanism that warns whenever a 
package would be released with version numbers in the manual such as 2.3a+.

Updating version numbers in %require should not be needed for all 
releases, since extexi is used only for a couple of Bison source code files.

Paolo