From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: version comparison functions
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4q9c7lco.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1E8auW-0000M3-Eh@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:54:08 -0400")
> version< is useful for comparing version number strings.
How often does that happen?
And for those rare cases where some piece of elisp code uses a version
comparison, how many of those could advantageously use
a feature-test instead? I thought we'd discussed and rejected such version
comparison functions in the past.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-26 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-25 11:09 version comparison functions Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-26 9:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-26 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-26 12:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-26 13:24 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-26 13:41 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-26 15:08 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2005-08-28 2:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-26 12:53 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-26 22:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-27 3:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-26 13:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-26 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-08-26 22:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-26 23:41 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2005-08-27 17:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
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