Robert Widhopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On , May 29, 2004 at 23:27:26, Stefan Reichör wrote:
> > Robert Widhopf-Fenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > for users not getting xtla from an tla-archive we should
> > > include a version string.  I was thinking about an
> > > auto-generated xtla-version.el containing:
> > > 
> > > ------------------ |%% do not edit -- automatically generated file
> > > |(defconst xtla-version
> > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > This could be used for bug-reports and as an anchor for patches. 
> > 
> > We have that information already in the CHANGELOG file.
> 
> BTW, shouldn't we use it ChangeLog instead of all uppercase?

I have no objection here. I just used all uppercase because we have
also files called HACKING, BINDINGS, INSTALL,...
 
> > Is it possible to find the version information from that file?
> 
> It depends on the location.
> 
> For XEmacs the location will be within the lisp dir for the
> xlta package, e.g. ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/xtla/lisp/
> 
> For GNU Emacs???
> 
> > I do not have a solution for that specific problem.
> > Anyone?
> > If it is not easy/possible, we should use the xtla-version.el file.
> 
> With a separate lisp files it does not depend on the
> location of ChangeLog and users or a bug report function
> simply can use the content of xtla-version ...
> 
> (when (locate-library "xtla-version.el")
>   (load-library "xtla-version.el")
>   (message "This is XTLA version %s" xtla-version))

As I have already expressed, we can use such a file for the proposed
purpose.

Stefan.


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