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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
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    This may be useful as an addition to a general version number 
    comparison, but for Emacs version numbers, I think we should DTRT based 
    on the shorter of the two arguments:

    (version= "22" "22.0.50.37") => t

Actually, version= was not supposed to be installed at all.  It isn't
necessary, since people can use string=.