Subject: Re: bug#8054: 24.0.50; Who ever heard of a version number that doesn't change all year?

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:10:04 +0100

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:54 PM,  <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Gentlemen, let's face it, your version number,
> emacs-version "24.0.50.1"
> is a total disaster for use in e.g., report-emacs-bug.

Yepp. I have suggested to use bzr ids instead. Which is what I am
using in my patched version of EmacsW32 (so I have some code for w32
for it).

I think this should be added to the makefiles.