From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>='
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 15:11:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19ClMj-0007Lz-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855CB@dewdfx17> (christoph.wedler@sap.com)
A "lexical-order extension" of < and > looks like a good idea. A
remaining question:
- will `emacs-version>=' be defined based on that?
If anyone wants it, I guess so.
Of couse, as I said before, if a feature/fix A could be tested
*directly*, one should use that test, not some version or
Emacs-vs-XEmacs test. E.g.,
- (featurep 'some-feature)
- (fbound 'some-function) ; I only mentioned this in my prev mail
- (boundp 'some-var)
People have also shown various ways of testing the behavior of a function
to see if a bug has been fixed. I think those are good approaches.
But I agree with you that testing indirectly related
criteria--criteria that are only indirect ways of testing for a
certain version--is not wise, and that it is better to test the
version number openly than to for the version indirectly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-05 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ 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
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 [this message]
2003-05-05 21:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-06 23:42 ` Istvan Marko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-06 11:10 Wedler, Christoph
2003-05-06 21:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-07 11:51 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-07 12:11 Wedler, Christoph
2003-05-07 12:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-09 11:19 ` Richard Stallman
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