From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: jerome.marant@free.fr, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, rlb@defaultvalue.org
Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:25:21 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buovfdwy2da.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> After grepping for `emacs-version', it appears that changing the
> current convention would require checking a surprisingly *huge* amount
> of code. A non-trivial amount of code will probably have to be
> rewritten.
Huh? Why? Emacs already uses three-component version numbers, it's
just that nobody ever seems to use the last one except for setting it to
"50" in CVS. Can you point out an example of code that would have to be
rewritten? To my knowledge, about 99.9% of version-checking code does
simple string-compares to look at the first 2 digits.
An interesting idea might be to make `emacs-minor-version' a
floating-point number, e.g. for 21.4, emacs-minor-version is 4, but for
21.4.1, it would be 4.1. I'll bet that would make a lot of code `just
work'.
-Miles
--
I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme
or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff
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Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-27 7:37 [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Richard Stallman
2004-09-27 9:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-27 11:48 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-27 13:24 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-28 9:01 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 22:55 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-28 20:57 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-27 13:21 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 13:47 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-28 12:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-29 17:46 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-29 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-29 19:29 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-29 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-29 20:22 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 0:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-30 1:25 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-09-30 15:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-30 17:02 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 19:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-30 1:56 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 7:42 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 9:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:32 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:36 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 15:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 16:33 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-30 19:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-03 1:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-30 20:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 20:46 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 21:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 21:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 21:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-30 22:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-01 16:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-03 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-30 0:09 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:32 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:34 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 15:53 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 17:20 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 20:42 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-01 7:22 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-01 12:35 ` Stefan
2004-10-01 14:49 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-01 16:25 ` Stefan
2004-10-01 20:31 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 14:33 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-03 16:20 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 14:33 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-01 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 21:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 19:09 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-01 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-01 21:47 ` [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacsreleases.] Lennart Borgman
2004-09-30 16:53 ` [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Rob Browning
2004-09-30 19:15 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-30 20:26 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 14:20 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-04 22:40 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-06 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 15:15 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 15:58 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 21:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-02 20:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-30 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-01 6:24 ` Francesco Potorti`
2004-10-04 22:58 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 8:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-05 15:01 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 16:18 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-05 16:34 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-06 8:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-05 11:26 ` Stefan
2004-10-05 11:40 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-06 11:09 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-06 11:46 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-05 14:39 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-05 15:28 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 15:32 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-06 8:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Kenichi Handa
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