From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87d3ts686x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <83bp9ex3ro.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281308571 23742 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 23:02:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 01:02:49 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 1OiEtB-0005wQ-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:02:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiEYD-0005PG-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40734 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiEWH-0003hL-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiEWG-0001dB-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po14.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.23]:60542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiEWG-0001d5-85; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (173-9-75-145-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.9.75.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po14.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o78Md2hC008621 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6797C013; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:39:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83bp9ex3ro.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:47:55 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:128435 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> +@item Version >> +A version number, which is a dotted list of integers, like >> +@samp{1.2.0.3}. > > Only integers? Emacs supports more flexible version strings, see > subr.el. Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. The parts of package.el that deal with version numbers probably ought to use `version-to-list', `version-list-<', etc.