From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: [CONCERN] Orgmode version string Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:57:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8162wmze0s.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42853 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBaTp-0006Ra-BV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:57:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBaTo-0001LQ-0Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:57:53 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:55046) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBaTn-0001LL-Sb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:57:51 -0400 Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so1459606ewy.0 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:57:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8162wmze0s.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Jambunathan, On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Jambunathan K wrote: > > 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. (version-to-list "7.02") -> (7 2) (version-to-list "7.20") -> (7 20) so it seems to me that if we keep two-digit numbers, there will be no problem at all. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (version-list-= (version-to-list "7.02") (version-to-list "7.20")) #+end_src - Carsten > > 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 > > Ignore this mail if it is already taken care of. Needless to say, I > have > ELPA-tarballs in mind when I say this. > > Jambunathan K. > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode