From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Istvan Marko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:42:43 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855C9@dewdfx17> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052267265 19598 80.91.224.249 (7 May 2003 00:27:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 00:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 02:27:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DCmc-00055W-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2003 02:27:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19DCqL-0004rk-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2003 02:31:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DCmv-0001AD-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 20:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DCmc-00018r-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 20:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DCkc-0008Nf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 20:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DCiZ-0007i1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 20:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DCfz-0004jB-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2003 02:20:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DC3j-0002VR-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2003 01:41:19 +0200 Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855C9@dewdfx17> (Christoph Wedler's message of "Fri, 2 May 2003 21:55:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cgQv0CqWiGWFgNr2vb0tVYcH5+k= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13727 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13727 "Wedler, Christoph" writes: > Like it or not, a test like `emacs-version>=' would be useful for many > packages, thus a corresponding function would be useful to define in > Emacs. How about something like gnus-continuum-version that would return the version as a floating point number: (gnus-continuum-version) 5.09002 -- Istvan