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.

> That concern might be irrelevant to having "a single DOC file" in the
> source tree - dunno.  I'm not concerned about the build process, but
> I would not want multiple binaries of Emacs on my machine to show the
> same set of doc strings.

They already show the same docstrings for all non-preloaded files.


        Stefan