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RE: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>='
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Wedler, Christoph |
Subject: |
RE: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' |
Date: |
Tue, 6 May 2003 13:10:53 +0200 |
Luc Teirlinck wrote:
> Christoph Wedler wrote:
> (a constant `emacs-patch-level' would be useful then)
> What would that constant represent?
Well, some emacs-minor-minor-version ;-) I don't know the current Emacs
version numering scheme.
I thought it would be the 3rd number in `emacs-version' because the
Emacs-21.3 pre-releases had a useful numering scheme, i.e., they had
versions 21.2.90, 21.2.91, ...
Since there might be some bug-fix releases of Emacs-21.3 before
Emacs-21.4 is out, I would think it would be useful to have versions
numbers 21.3.0, 21.3.1 etc for them. How do I distinguish between such
Emacs-21.3 versions now? Or is the first bug fix of Emacs-21.3 called
Emacs-21.4 (and the second Emacs-21.5)?
I would also have guessed something similar for the Emacs development
version... (e.g., that they start with Emacs-21.3.40 or whatever...)
> From the code of emacs-version>= you proposed, it would seem that it
> would be say the "2" in emacs-21.3.2, representing the second
> instance of 21.3 the user built in the given directory, or the "50",
> in emacs-21.3.50.43 (or whatever). If so, patch-level 50 for
> emacs-21.3 could represent the 50th time that a "compulsive Emacs
> builder" built Emacs-21.3 or it could represent a snapshot of
> emacs-21.3.50.
Err, obviously, Emacs has a different the numering scheme...
> That would not seem to make a whole lot of sense.
Indeed, but it could make sense if adopted to the Emacs version numering
scheme (which might need to be defined).
- Christoph
- Re: New function `emacs-version>=', (continued)
Re: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=', Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2003/05/02
Re: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=', Richard Stallman, 2003/05/04
Re: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=', Istvan Marko, 2003/05/06
RE: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=', Wedler, Christoph, 2003/05/05
RE: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=',
Wedler, Christoph <=
RE: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=', Wedler, Christoph, 2003/05/07