Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Version string in TeX mode commands...

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

    David> Jan-Åke Larsson <address@hidden> writes:
    >> David Kastrup wrote:
    >>> a) take the version string from autoconf.
    >> 
    >> This is the usual way to do it.
    >> 
    >>> e) Just go by the last ChangeLog entry (releases have special syntax
    >>> and can be discerned).
    >> 
    >> Since we have quite a few CVS users, I can see the need for doing it
    >> this way.
    >> 
    >>> d) use the release number if a regularly exported release, use the
    >>> topmost date in the ChangeLog file if not.
    >> 
    >> This is probably the sanest alternative. Now, ISTR Uwe is using his
    >> own CVS repository for XEmacs packaging, correct? This has to be
    >> robust so that we won't get confusing bug reports, for Uwe's XEmacs
    >> packages.

    David> I see no problem here.  You have to export using a particular release
    David> tag in order to get the release string, and I doubt that XEmacs
    David> developers do that with a release version string compatible to ours.
    David> I also have been unable to persuade Uwe to use the "cvs admin -kb"
    David> option on tex.el so that their CVS does not tamper with our version
    David> numbers, so I think that this will likely continue when we move the
    David> version $Name: $ string into auctex.el.

Just for the records. I tried that I tried in fact all your proposals,
but it did *not* work, I was forced to insert that string manually.

    David>  So the version would  revert to the  ChangeLog date always
    David> and never to an upstream release number.  Which is probably
    David> not the worst idea.

    David> Given  the  recent fallout on  the  XEmacs beta development
    David> lists  where it was quite  categorically stated that  if we
    David> provided completely finished packages for XEmacs ourselves,
    David> they  would not get used anyway,  it might be an idea, once
    David>  that the build   process  is valid   for the whole  AUCTeX
    David> package, to provide XEmacs packages of our  own and ask the
    David> XEmacs  maintainers to change  the bug reporting address of
    David> their own variant.

Which most likely would lead to result, that 'real auctex' bugs would
then be redirected to the auctex list, but anyhow, this is your decision.

    David> I don't really fancy dealing with bug reports for a version
    David> for which we are considered irresponsible.

    David> -- 
    David> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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