From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 16:59:56 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200305052159.h45LxuI23833@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855CB@dewdfx17> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052172012 5419 80.91.224.249 (5 May 2003 22:00:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 22:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 00:00:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Co0D-0001Oz-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 00:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Co3P-0006HW-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 00:03:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Co0W-0005BV-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 05 May 2003 18:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Co06-00059y-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2003 17:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Co05-00059d-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2003 17:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Co05-00057W-00; Mon, 05 May 2003 17:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) h45Lxtoc018626; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:59:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h45LxuI23833; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:59:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: christoph.wedler@sap.com In-reply-to: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855CB@dewdfx17> (christoph.wedler@sap.com) Original-cc: rms@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13706 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13706 Christoph Wedler wrote: (a constant `emacs-patch-level' would be useful then) What would that constant represent? From the code of emacs-version>= you proposed, it would seem that it would be say the "2" in emacs-21.3.2, representing the second instance of 21.3 the user built in the given directory, or the "50", in emacs-21.3.50.43 (or whatever). If so, patch-level 50 for emacs-21.3 could represent the 50th time that a "compulsive Emacs builder" built Emacs-21.3 or it could represent a snapshot of emacs-21.3.50. That would not seem to make a whole lot of sense. Or how exactly would you define that constant? Sincerely, Luc.