Re: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?

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Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes:

> [ In the past, Emacs *executables* had versions numbers of the form
>   NN.MM.BB (or NN.MM.OO.BB for non-release versions) where BB was a "build
>   number", i.e. something that gets incremented every time the user builds
>   Emacs again from the same directory.  We're not using that any
>   more, tho.  ]
>
>
>         Stefan

Nice! and by the way I was talking in general not in relation to emacs
so I mention karl fogel book where he also discuss that technique to
append build number or hash.