From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: next emacs version? Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:22:52 +0200 Message-ID: <8339zvhsir.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com> <83iq8sigyq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3z0i3nu.fsf@gnu.org> <911BA1D06CEB4306924D0069BA2D3DFF@us.oracle.com> <83bpeki18a.fsf@gnu.org> <83aau4hv38.fsf@gnu.org> <0E10B96B5C814EE8B95B57972F13E189@us.oracle.com> <87sk7v1whq.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <837hp7idyl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269102240 23987 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2010 16:24:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 20 17:23:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt1Sp-0006kN-CE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:23:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt1Sn-0002wn-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt1Sc-0002u3-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42887 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt1Sa-0002tj-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt1SY-0004y3-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt1SY-0004xo-2r; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZL00A009BRV700@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:22:35 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.182.236]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZL0046R9HMWGP0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:22:35 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122361 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:58:10 -0700 > > > > It's a transient problem that is not worth worrying about. Users who > > > build from development sources will update and rebuild soon anyway. > > > > Right. And because of this, I think testing with version< against the > > last officially released version would be good enough. > > Actually, this is the test I think is appropriate, where N is the _next_ > official release (e.g. "23.2" in the current case): > > (if (or (not (fboundp 'version<)) > (version< emacs-version N)) > OLD > NEW) > > 24.0.50.1, 23.2, and later will pick up NEW. > 23.1 and anything older will pick up OLD. > > Testing with `version<' against the _last_ official release won't help, I think. > Maybe you meant `version<='? Yes, sorry.