From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5744: 23.1.92; doc string of `version<' etc. Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:12:11 +0800 Message-ID: <878w9m1nro.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> References: <4E614B66A7BE41B496EA061D77C80C2E@us.oracle.com> <87pr2yriq4.fsf@gmail.com> <9C18B608A91D4DE5B54FC6ACB722141C@us.oracle.com> <83y6hmhgb9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269134728 27199 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2010 01:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stepnem@gmail.com, 5744@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 21 02:25:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt9ur-0000CO-19 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3B666304; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:12:11 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <83y6hmhgb9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:46:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:13:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35668 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > With versions, it might be better to use "older" and "newer" instead. I don't think it is possible to come up with an algorithm for that. There may be maintainence branches still running after a new major release (eg gcc 4.3.4 is newer than 4.4.1, despite being a lower version).