Hi Bastien, Achim,

I have added you to this thread to get help on how to make it easy to
identify if the current version of org-mode is the dev build.

As of now, M-x org-version shows "Org-mode version 8.3.4 .." for both
master and maint build of org-mode. Would it be possible to have the
version show something like "Org-mode version 8.3.4-dev .." for master
branch builds?

That allows a quick visual confirmation if someone is using the dev or
stable build. Also it would be useful in creating version checking elisp
wrappers around not-yet-released org-mode code in personal configs.

Something like below would then be possible

(if (org-mode-dev-p)
    (progn
      ;; new style
      )
  (progn
    ;; old style
    ))

Thanks.


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:45 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > It would have been nice if the master branch built version showed a
> > different numerical version number than the one on the maint branch. Or
> > probably some prefix like dev/master? Nicolas?
>
> Deciding the next version number ahead of time isn't always right from
> the beginning of the branch. I guess a "dev" suffix should be enough.
>
> However, I don't know how to change the release tag, which is defined in
> a somewhat convoluted way. Bastien or Achim probably know how to do it.
>
> --

-- 
Kaushal Modi