Re: Include date in TeX-submit-bug-report

Reiner Steib <[email protected]> writes:

> what about adding `AUCTeX-date' to `TeX-submit-bug-report' if
> `AUCTeX-version' indicates that we have a CVS version?
>
> I.e. in the bug reports, we would have
>
> | Package: AUCTeX CVS-5.479 (Date: 2005.0126)
>
> instead of
>
> | Package: AUCTeX CVS-5.479
>
> Additionally, we could change the format of `AUCTeX-date' to
> yyyy-mm-dd instead of yyyy.mmdd, which is clearer and more common
> nowadays (e.g. in out ChangeLogs).  BTW, do we use `AUCTeX-date' at
> all?  Or does some other package check it?  Does it have to be a
> float?

The concept is taken from preview-latex.  It doubles as the package
version number for the XEmacs package system (which can compare only
floating point numbers as package versions).

Now preview-latex has never actually been under the control of an
XEmacs package repository (the installation really requires autoconf
up to now), so this has not actively been used.  It would also only
make sense if no separate versioning was introduced by the respective
XEmacs package repository/server.

The XEmacs package numbers are usually completely meaningless junk
bearing no relation to the actual package numbers in question.
Setting them to the date at least would give them some meaning.

But taken outside of that context, I agree that a proper date string
seems more appropriate.  We can still resuscitate the old code when we
really need a float, and call it something different.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum