Re: [AC21.5] Give precise version information in Help->About XEmacs

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> writes:

> APPROVE COMMIT 21.5
>
> Useful but incomplete, so not ready for 21.4 yet.
>
> With major releases coming as far apart as they have, and beginning
> users not knowing that M-x emacs-version gives a lot more information
> than Help->About XEmacs does, this should improve bug reports and
> general discussion of version information.
>
> The date information is still going to be inaccurate.  I propose that
> we create a variable `emacs-release-date' either in addition to or
> instead of Steve Youngs's `xemacs-extra-name', which would be
> maintained by the release engineer.  We could also include information

Whenever changes to version.sh or Installation file contents or
formats a designed, let's please take it's implications on
build-report.el into account.

It means updating build-report.el in core and in the build package.

I should be able to help with both.

The build package reintroduced the once removed build-report.el to
support better build reports than 21.1 was offering.

This way bug reporting can be improved be package upgrade instead of
XEmacs version upgrade (the usual strength of packages).

Best regards,

Adrian

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