Re: Version strings in lisp files?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jambunathan K <address@hidden>
> Cc: Bastien <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:04:41 +0530
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > AFAIK, the policy is that _if_ you want some version string in a
> > package, then keep that to a minimum (1 file).  But there's no policy,
> > AFAIK, to have a version string, if Org doesn't need that.
> 
> Leaving aside question of Org, 
> 
> ,---- from package.el
> |    ;; Prefer Package-Version; if defined, the package author
> |    ;; probably wants us to use it.  Otherwise try Version.
> |    (pkg-version
> |     (or (package-strip-rcs-id (lm-header "package-version"))
> |     (package-strip-rcs-id (lm-header "version"))))
> `----

That's a different issue, one that pertains to packages that are _not_
bundled with Emacs.