Re: Emacs trunk binary on Dropbox

[Dani Moncayo]

>> Anyway, if you want to know the bzr revno associated with a binary,
>> just look at the archive name, as explained in the file
>> "snapshots/README":
>>
>>   The archives in this directory are named according to this pattern:
>>
>>      emacs-rREVNO-YYYYMMDD-API-bin.zip
>>
>>   where:
>>     * REVNO is the bzr revision (of the trunk branch) that was built.
>>     * YYYYMMDD is the commit date of the above revision.
>>     * API is the host OS API (always "w32" for now).
>
> That's too bad, because now report-emacs-bug will not show the bzr
> revision, and whoever reads the bug report has no idea from which zip
> file the binary came.
>
> Please reconsider the decision, or provide some way for your builds to
> report the bzr revision.  TIA.

It would be nice if I could specify the bzr revno manually, for
example as a parameter to "configure" or "make", because having to
keep using bzr just for this little thing would also be too bad.

-- 
Dani Moncayo