From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 48404@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: bug#48404: 28.0.50; "Invalid version syntax" errors with read-extended-command
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 17:48:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kf2viof.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cztqn3p9.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 16 May 2021 16:38:58 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: tsdh@gnu.org, 48404@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
> Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 16:38:58 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > For obsolete commands from 3rd-party packages, which state something
> > like "Magit 3.0" in the version since which they are obsolete, the
> > obsolescence will never happen, in the sense that they will _always_
> > appear in "M-x TAB", even 100 years from now. Is that what we want?
>
> That is what was the case before applying the patch, so it's no change
> for those commands.
No change for the worse, sure. That's what I meant when I said they
will not be able to take advantage of this feature. They will be
excluded.
> >> (version-to-list "28.1 Magit/2.5")
> >
> > I'm not sure it's possible without introducing ambiguity into the
> > version string and complicating comparison of versions. We already
> > support some non-numeric versions, and that's not easy.
>
> Sorry, I was imprecise here -- I didn't mean that we should change
> `version-to-list' itself here, but add a new function that's more
> permissive, just for use in this context. It would basically be
> something along the lines of (version-to-list (car (split-string string)))
The main purpose is to compare versions. How would you do that with
loose version strings such as the one above?
> >> It might make sense to allow the obsoletion versions to refer to both an
> >> (approximate) Emacs version, as well as a package version.
> >
> > How can this be done, even in principle? Versions of unbundled
> > packages are unrelated to Emacs versions; typically, a given version
> > of an unbundled package supports quite a few Emacs versions. So what
> > Emacs version will you put there?
>
> That would be up to the package maintainers -- they get to choose what
> Emacs version(s) the obsolete command would show up in `M-x TAB'
> completions.
I don't think they will be able to solve this problem, not in
satisfactory ways anyway.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-13 20:45 bug#48404: 28.0.50; "Invalid version syntax" errors with read-extended-command Tassilo Horn
2021-05-14 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-14 6:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-14 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-14 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-14 7:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-14 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-16 14:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-16 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-16 14:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-16 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-17 13:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-17 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-17 14:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-17 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-19 11:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-19 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-14 7:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-14 16:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-05-14 16:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-14 7:50 ` bug#48404: Daniel Mendler
2021-05-14 18:31 ` bug#48404: Daniel Mendler
2021-05-16 14:09 ` bug#48404: Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-16 20:26 ` bug#48404: Daniel Mendler
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