From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: merge emacs-pretest-bug and emacs-devel Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:37:21 +0300 Message-ID: References: <14wsw1bfmq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87lkcdex3g.fsf@lrde.org> <87eji5edqy.fsf@lrde.org> <874pj1dp0v.fsf@lrde.org> <877inubk35.fsf@lrde.org> <873ayibd6t.fsf@lrde.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187354256 9679 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2007 12:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: michael@cadilhac.name (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 14:37:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IM150-0001qQ-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:37:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM150-0007gX-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IM14w-0007ez-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IM14u-0007dW-Dv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM14u-0007dN-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IM14t-0004SN-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-207-214.inter.net.il [84.228.207.214]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HOJ40280 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:34:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <873ayibd6t.fsf@lrde.org> (michael@cadilhac.name) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:76687 Archived-At: > From: michael@cadilhac.name (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac) > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:41:46 +0200 > > >> I suppose it's not important. > > > > ?? Why not? > > Because nobody replied :-) Yeah, and you waited the whole two days! Geez, can't those bozos reply right away? > IIUC, pretest on MS-DOS should have 3 numbers, no? Yes. > > Anyway, emacs-version on MS-DOS has only 2 parts, so if you make the > > last part optional in the regexp, it will do for all platforms. > > Well, I don't really see what you mean. IIUC: > MS-DOS: 22.1 > MS-DOS pretest: 22.1.50 > Linux: 22.1.42 > Linux pretest: 22.1.50.42 > > What do I have missed? I don't know. I didn't track this longish discussion. If you can explain what you are trying to do with emacs-version, and why you are bothered by how many parts it has, I could try helping you.