From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: version comparison functions Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125071565 25296 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2005 15:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 17:52:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8gTI-0002kn-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8gXE-0001RQ-Qb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E8gUo-0000SW-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E8gUg-0000Pf-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8gUg-0000NY-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E8gSE-0006KF-FU; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E7E2CF5D1; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6A24AC00F; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A94E5E6BD4; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:54:08 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.844, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.06, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42431 Archived-At: > 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