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From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: re-organising Emacs FTP
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:45:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vaczs2sa.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y3hwxspw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:14:19 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 22:55:27 +0700
>> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> 
>> You mean, like, emacs!latest? That will sort before emacs-*.
>> 
>> Another alternative is to double the dash: emacs--latest. The second
>> dash will sort before all digits.
>
> Maybe a better alternative is to capitalize LATEST-VERSION or some
> such.

Yeah, that's true. That would be a very simple thing to add.

I am getting no overwhelming feeling that this is a bad idea, so I will
see if we can make the change.

Phil



  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-10 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-09 10:59 re-organising Emacs FTP Phillip Lord
2018-04-09 12:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-09 13:23   ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-09 13:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-09 14:12       ` Nicolas Petton
2018-04-09 14:17         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-09 14:58           ` Drew Adams
2018-04-10  2:33       ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-10  8:54       ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-09 15:55   ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-09 16:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-10 11:45       ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2018-04-09 14:10 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-04-10 11:42   ` Phillip Lord

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