From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: 03 Jul 2002 01:23:20 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <878z4uumiv.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200207021528.g62FSST17855@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87d6u6uno9.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200207021605.g62G57g18095@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025627029 13985 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 16:23:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , storm@cua.dk, Emacs Devel Mailing List Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PQRQ-0003dS-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:23:48 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PQWX-0006rm-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PQRl-0005QS-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PQRA-0005Oa-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-156.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.156] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 17PQR7-0007aQ-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 01:23:29 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 10ADD3075; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 01:23:20 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200207021605.g62G57g18095@rum.cs.yale.edu> Original-Lines: 12 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5331 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5331 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > I don't necessarily claim that the :version problem in defcustom > and in make-obsolete is "a good reason", but I think it is an annoyance. What is the `:version problem'? As far as I can see, such comparisons should still work fine because no existing components have changed meaning. Of course the version-number-comparison function will have to be updated for minor-minor components, but that seems unrelated. -Miles -- Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.