Re: Canonical location for emacs-version string in source tree?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" 
> <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:19:32 -0400
> 
> > "emacs --version" would print out the version if it was set, otherwise
> > ignore the option; it does this early in main(), before Lisp code is
> > loaded.  The "make install" rule always runs "emacs --version" to
> > figure out the DOC file name.  If you build with CANNOT_DUMP, the
> > emacs binary that gets run hasn't had the basic Lisp code pre-loaded
> > into it.  So "emacs --version" pops up a window.
> 
> A simple fix is to get rid of the DOC-NN.NN.NN madness and just use
> "DOC" as the file name.  Any objection?

Would the emacs-NN.NN.NN madness go with it as well?