From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.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: Mon, 17 May 2021 15:54:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7j1lb30.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834kf2viof.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 16 May 2021 17:48:16 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> >> (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?
We're looking at the Emacs version (which we'd put first in the version
string, while the rest is essentially a free text used as a comment).
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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
2021-05-17 13:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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