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Subject: Re: Problems with b91
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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> XEmacs thinks its version number is "-b90", not "19.16", as it should
> be.  My guess is that configure is getting this from a comment (!) in
> lisp/version.el.  

Why `(!)'?  The version number is sought out of the source with
carefully constructed grep/sed constructions highly dependent on
source code formatting.  The source has changed the grep/sed magic has 
not been.  The quick fix is to abandon the grep/sed stuff to the
oblivion they belong to and hardcode the version.

> Someone else already pointed out the problem with the empty codename
> escaping to the splash screen.

Fixed in the next release.

