From: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [CONCERN] Orgmode version string
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:06:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762wm5s3j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8162wmze0s.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:10:35 +0530")
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> I have every reason to believe that upcoming version of Org would be
> tagged as 7.02. Earlier I had argued that version strings be
> version-to-list compatible. I would like to reiterate it.
>
> My real concern is that 7.02 would be deemed as equivalent to 7.2
> internally by the versioning subsystem and this is likely to clash with
> user's point of view. A user would *definitely* assume 7.02 as different
> from 7.2 and in all probability swear that former is inferior to the
> later.
>
> Please confirm what I am saying by evalling this:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (version-list-= (version-to-list "7.02") (version-to-list "7.2"))
> #+end_src
I confirm.
> Ignore this mail if it is already taken care of. Needless to say, I have
> ELPA-tarballs in mind when I say this.
Another way is to make Emacs more liberal about version names.
Can you suggest a new default for `version-regexp-alist' so that
7.01 is considered older than 7.10?
(version-list-= (version-to-list "7.02") (version-to-list "7.2"))
being t is not intuitive.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 12:40 [CONCERN] Orgmode version string Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 14:06 ` Bastien [this message]
2010-10-28 16:27 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 18:16 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 21:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-29 1:36 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-29 13:06 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-29 14:51 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-29 17:53 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-29 14:53 ` Bastien
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