From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: New function `emacs-version>='
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 01:08:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cjwrp0x.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030503154455.C412.LEKTU@terra.es> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 03 May 2003 15:54:05 +0200")
>>>>> "Juanma" == Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:
Juanma> Yeah, well, that's perhaps the reason I wrote "you can
Juanma> *often* do..." :-)
Juanma> But, honestly, how many cases like this one have you
Juanma> found?
Isn't one enough? :-)
The XEmacs Review practice wrt to emacs-version>= is to query the
patch author if a feature test couldn't be used instead. About half
the time in my experience the author makes a reasonable case (eg, if a
package depends on multiple features that all came available with a
certain version).
I like Stefan's idea though; I think I'm going to implement it. It
should sufficiently annoy people that they'll book up on Ben's new
suite of warning control APIs, too. :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-03 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-02 19:55 [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' Wedler, Christoph
2003-05-02 21:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-02 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-02 21:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-03 11:12 ` Ehud Karni
2003-05-03 13:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-03 16:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-05-04 19:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-06 11:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-04 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 17:48 ` Reiner Steib
2003-05-03 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-05 13:47 ` sort-coding-systems in 21.3 and RC branch (was: New function `emacs-version>=') Reiner Steib
2003-05-06 7:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-02 21:16 ` [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-05-04 13:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-05 12:52 ` Wedler, Christoph
2003-05-05 13:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-05 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-05 21:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-06 23:42 ` Istvan Marko
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