From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Emacs 21" Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:34:51 +0200 Message-ID: <85psczu7ec.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <35344.128.165.123.18.1160155315.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <39197.128.165.123.18.1160518428.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160519774 6329 80.91.229.2 (10 Oct 2006 22:36:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 11 00:36:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXQCQ-00024E-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:35:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXQCQ-0004o1-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXQCE-0004nA-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXQCE-0004mW-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXQCE-0004mQ-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXQK6-0008Rx-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GXQC7-0006Lb-0f; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A421B1CE169A; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:34:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: <39197.128.165.123.18.1160518428.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Tue\, 10 Oct 2006 15\:13\:48 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:60595 Archived-At: "Stuart D. Herring" writes: > By "properly", do you mean "recognize as distinct from all prior (and > perhaps subsequent) Emacs versions, or do you merely mean that they should > not produce literally false output (e.g., diagnosing Emacs 22 as 20)? Or > do you mean that all such tests should make logical divisions such as > "older than Emacs 21" and "not older than Emacs 21", regardless of which > divisions they make? Finally, can such tests use `emacs-major-version' > and such, introduced in 19.23? People writing software for Emacs 19.23 would better consult the Emacs Lisp manual corresponding to their version of Emacs. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum