Re: What's this p2 business?
Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes:
I've just noticed that 21.1 installs into a directory called
xemacs-21.1-p2. Why is this? Can we not just stick with xemacs-21.1 as the
directory name?
The practical reason is that the patch I made that turns beta labels
into patch levels reuses the beta code and we do this for beta
versions.
Whether you actually want that this depends on whether you want to have
people have multiple 21.1.x versions installed, we allowed this for
the older versions (when we didn't have patch levels), so why not
now?
On the other hand, I am not sure many people actually use this
feature. Most installations I have seen create a separate hierarchy
for each version and have /usr/local symlink to that.
Jan