From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48404: 28.0.50; "Invalid version syntax" errors with read-extended-command Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 17:27:05 +0300 Message-ID: <838s4dtozq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875yzms6im.fsf@gnu.org> <83wns1zvhs.fsf@gnu.org> <871ra9kdgs.fsf@gnu.org> <83czttzstr.fsf@gnu.org> <87wns1n4k6.fsf@gnus.org> <835yzlzr37.fsf@gnu.org> <87cztqojsk.fsf@gnus.org> <835yzivjnc.fsf@gnu.org> <87cztqn3p9.fsf@gnus.org> <834kf2viof.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7j1lb30.fsf@gnus.org> <83eee5tpr3.fsf@gnu.org> <87tun1jvbq.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38344"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 48404@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, tsdh@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 17 16:28:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lieEN-0009lr-CK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 16:28:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52734 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lieEM-0001uL-9a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lieDy-0001iW-RR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lieDy-0006pL-KP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lieDy-0005J5-HJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:28:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 14:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 48404 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 48404-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B48404.162126162820339 (code B ref 48404); Mon, 17 May 2021 14:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 48404) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 May 2021 14:27:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53338 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lieD6-0005Hz-9o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34080) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lieD4-0005HV-Lj for 48404@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lieCz-0006Fg-Ey; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4421 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lieCy-0005pK-8H; Mon, 17 May 2021 10:27:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tun1jvbq.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 17 May 2021 16:20:25 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:206710 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: tsdh@gnu.org, 48404@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se > Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 16:20:25 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > What do you mean by "first"? We already support the likes of > > "28.3 Beta3", and "Beta3" is not ignored there as some free-text > > comment. > > For this purpose, it doesn't matter -- we're only interested in the > major version. But if you want to expand the language in a more regular > way, then a different separating character (between the part we parse > and the one that's free text) can be used, of course. Semicolon? Maybe, I don't know. My point is that simply ignoring something after the first space is not a good idea. > > And that is assuming the developers of 3rd-party packages can have > > some reasonable way of associating their versions with Emacs versions, > > which I still think is a problem with no solution. > > They don't really need to. They decide "we think people with Emacs 25 > shouldn't have this in their M-x TAX" and then put "26.1;Magit/1.2" in > the string. We need to talk to them to get their agreement, I think. We cannot decide for them that this is what they should do.