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Re: Updating release version to 22.1
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Updating release version to 22.1 |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:33:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> This assumes that most version numbers in the text can stay ("will be
>> available with version xxx" is a good candidate). That will still
>> need to cater for "the current version is xxx", but maybe _those_ can
>> partly be autogenerated with CVS keywords, depending on the kind of
>> text?
>
> Certainly it would be better to use a variable than straight text where
> possible. But, please, no address@hidden cvs keywords (which have bugger-all
> connection to anything real anyway).
>
> Where do all these instances of release numbers occur anyway? (Kim?)
M-x grep RET 21\.4 * RET
The majority comes from
(defcustom ...
:version "21.4")
which certainly need to use a string constant.
>
> Cases in lisp code obviously should refer to a lisp variable instead
> (emacs-version, emacs-next-major-release :-).
(defcustom ...
:version emacs-version)
Ah, yes, really obvious?
Oh you mean
(defcustom ...
:version emacs-version-21-4)
that would work nicely.
>
> Cases in help text or texinfo could possibly be addressed with some
> analogous mechanism.
I'm sure there are just as obvious solutions for this too.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, (continued)
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Lennart Borgman, 2005/02/09
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Kim F. Storm, 2005/02/09
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Lute Kamstra, 2005/02/09
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Kim F. Storm, 2005/02/09
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, David Kastrup, 2005/02/09
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Miles Bader, 2005/02/09
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/10
- Re: Updating release version to 22.1, David Kastrup, 2005/02/08
Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/09
DONE: Updating release version to 22.1, Kim F. Storm, 2005/02/09
Re: Updating release version to 22.1, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/10