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Ok, folks, should I remove all version string comparison stuff from subr.el?


Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> On 8/26/05, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> How often does that happen?
>> And for those rare cases where some piece of elisp code uses a version
>> comparison, how many of those could advantageously use
>> a feature-test instead? I thought we'd discussed and rejected such 
>> version
>> comparison functions in the past.
>
>
> Yeah. That was my point, too.