Re: trunk r115926: In preparation for the move to git, sanitize out some Bazaar-specific names.

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:

> The more you talk about this, the less you're making any sense to me.

Same here.

> All this about the return value having structure is a red herring. You
> still *get* that structure by looking at emacs-bzr-version.  I have
> not changed that and will not; only the VCS transition will do that.

Yes. And after the transition, code that depends on
emacs-release-version and emacs-release-get-version will get a string
with a different structure. With your current aliases, they will
continue existing, and they will return something different. That is
an incompatible change.

> With both the variable and function alias in place, I don't understand
> what code would need to be changed.

(and (bound-and-true-p emacs-bzr-version)
     (- (read (emacs-bzr-get-version))
        (read emacs-bzr-version)))

This fails right now because you didn't introduce an alias for
emacs-bzr-get-version. But, once that is fixed, it will still fail
after the switch because emacs-bzr(-get)-version won't return a string
containing a revno.

So the only compatible fix is to keep these, not as aliases, but as obsolete.

    J