Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm not opposed to someone doing the work; I just couldn't effectively
> do it myself at the time, and didn't need it for my work.  And for
> Emacs maintenance itself, there are scripts and lisp packages (not
> distributed in the Emacs package) that know where the version strings
> live and how to update them consistently, so there hasn't been a big
> demand to reduce them all to one master source location.

Actually, I'd be happy to see it reduced to just a single location,
because it's the second biggest source of conflicts when merging the
emacs-23 branch into trunk (tho it's only when the merge includes
a change of revision obviously, but that's pretty frequent during the
pretest period).


        Stefan