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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > I have multiple Emacs versions installed (multiple binaries), and
>> > I expect each of them to faithfully have its own set of doc strings,
>> > that is, specific to the particular build.  Trying to deal with doc
>> > bugs and improvements would be problematic without this distinction.
>> Please explain more precisely your use case.

> ?
> The doc a user sees for a given version should be up-to-date and reflect that
> version faithfully. That's all.

That's neither precise, nor is it a use case.

In any case, IIUC your use-case (which you fail to describe) is
unaffected because you don't use several binary executables that share
the same source tree, same DOC file and same lisp tree.


        Stefan