From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jon Cast Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:38:25 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207022038.g62KcQs19292@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> References: <5x8z4upiqs.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025642329 19133 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 20:38:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Francesco Potorti` , Eli Zaretskii , burton@openprivacy.org, Emacs Devel Mailing List Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUQD-0004yU-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:38:49 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUVO-0004Gc-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:44:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUQU-0004EO-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu ([129.15.78.125]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUQ9-0004DJ-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ou.edu (jcast@localhost) by d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g62KcQs19292; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:38:26 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu: jcast owned process doing -bs Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: Message from storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:43:55 +0200." <5x8z4upiqs.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5363 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote: > It uses high-numbered "minor-minor" numbers (which I think is a good > idea), but the "minor" number of the pretest is plain wrong! > The pretest has the same minor number as the previous release, so > code cannot test emacs-minor-version for any practical purpose. Don't test emacs-minor-version. Do a lexicographic test on emacs-version, comparing against 21.3.90. That'll ensure you've got any non-CVS release containing the features of 21.4. > [The current CVS has emacs-minor-version == 3, although we all > expect the next release to be 21.4]. That'll make the lexicographic test fail (in general). I, personally, would be *much* more surprised by a system where version numbers didn't sort lexicographically than by one in which a particular component was `wrong'. Not sure if this made any sense, but I hope some of it did. > I don't know any code which breaks because of this though. > -- > Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk Jon Cast