From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 17:47:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <95980ffc-86e7-ad54-4a20-539d8c6ea5d0@mailo.com> <3f68f4bc-d426-0bcc-1329-674c12b29386@mailo.com> <76e12f7c-335f-476b-ffb3-fd8e8e4ab5d0@mailo.com> <87pm6rx4ea.fsf@yahoo.com> <87wn0ytefw.fsf@gmail.com> <83h6s0n95y.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23092"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 23:48:31 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q47Cf-0005mw-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 May 2023 23:48:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q47Bc-0006zU-NI; Tue, 30 May 2023 17:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q47Bb-0006yZ-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2023 17:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q47Bb-0001pW-8W; Tue, 30 May 2023 17:47:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=+kjPhQxz0CBB24qbJ7PXPlLyAEN1kO88YW2Gzvb2n/Y=; b=r81CkD3NR3cM e5o8+DWuA9zurDN1TFPRa/Fr/me4mzVuI6sa6dyE+7iBuOfuTw8r59GlMSTp8ZAbgCA0auWseQS9Z uzhL7sInhuYVtu8Xox1794SEvXQMlvC82Ixvzr+O4x720gLi9SjKxrV2e2j8aqp56vyRi+91P4Zjj FxJv6BnoQ6960o6hxaVi6k/B1mit4utBdQfpmpwWDZNCGcHSVIPKlVaXrGHzODyqgey7Nkvwrk/9G tvjNYAMQEvHeXYhiunOThbWbHIEChL2bpTA72vvabU68J+vXIVb8pHzBZ8djRV0n9aOWCFkgdsAce Xubi2opPwHuNTzNHZRvd8w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q47Ba-0005Mg-4e; Tue, 30 May 2023 17:47:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 29 May 2023 15:03:37 +0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306428 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > What sort of "constraints on versions of their dependencies" are possible? > > Are these numeric comparisons? > A version number is typically a triple of integers, written as > major.minor.patch. Thanks. That is what I needed to know. With no prior information about the meaning of "constraints on versions", I could envision a wide range of possibile meanings for "versions" -- I didn't know that it meant specifically something like this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)