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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] RefTeX version string
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] RefTeX version string |
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Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:59:14 +0100 |
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Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
> it would be nice if the version string of RefTeX were generated
> automatically from ChangeLog like in AUCTeX. We could put the
> respective defvar into reftex.el and let the value be updated by a sed
> call in Makefile.
Updates are poison for dependencies. Partly-generated, partly-edited
files can't really be sensibly be dealt with. Wait: isn't reftex.el
supposed to be autogenerated, anyway?
> (I should probably make a reftex.el.in to be under version control
> instead of the generated reftex.el.) The downside of this approach
> is that the variable won't be defined if the package is installed
> with install.el or if the version built-in in Emacs is concerned
> because then reftex.el likely won't be loaded since autoloads are
> put elsewhere. So my idea was to have the defvar of
> `reftex-version' also in reftex-base.el with a fixed value which
> will be used if reftex.el was not loaded. Is this a stupid idea?
The way you put it, . It definitely smells like trouble
to me.
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