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24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year? |
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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:54:37 +0800 |
Gentlemen, let's face it, your version number,
emacs-version "24.0.50.1"
is a total disaster for use in e.g., report-emacs-bug.
Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?
Even Microsoft with its 6.5235345532543 numbers are better than yours.
I especially like e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version MediaWiki|1.17wmf1 (r82223)
So do contemplate providing _version information down to the commit
granularity_ like the MediaWiki people do ... available right there to
the report-emacs-bug command, etc.
Don't expect the user to have to explain what time of what day he got his
copy from where, when asked for more details than "24.0.50.1".
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Re: bug#8054: closed (Re: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?) |
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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:00:55 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
address@hidden wrote:
> Thank you but emacs-bzr-version is nil and thus will not help here in
> $ apt-cache policy emacs-snapshot
I suggest you take that up with the person who is kind enough to build
Emacs for you. Or learn to build it yourself.
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