Re: tickets migrated to gitlab

[Mark Diekhans]

Thanks!  I would rather use .1 or .2 ..

Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader 
<viewmail-info@nongnu.org> writes:
> >> I was never clear if the `a' and `b' were alpha and beta or something
> >> else in the LP releases.
> > I agree.  
> 
> FWIW, `version-to-list` (which is used in the ELPA protocol to compare
> versions and hence needs to be obeyed by version numbers for ELPA
> packages, whether from Melpa(-stable) or (Non)GNU ELPA or any other)
> treats "a" and "b" not as "alpha/beta" but more like ".1" and ".2":
> 
>     (equal (version-to-list "1.2a") (version-to-list "1.2.1"))
>     => t
>     (equal (version-to-list "1.2b") (version-to-list "1.2.2"))
>     => t
> 
> 
> - Stefan
> 
>