Re: BUG: Backward compatibility breakage by --sort argument

[YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com>]

On 2021-08-14 12:19, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Notmuch mail list,
>>
>> I noticed that the Emacs notmuch tree stopped working after a recent (?)
>> upgrade.
>>
>
> I think the most we could do is have notmuch-emacs print a more
> informative message telling the user to upgrade notmuch (patches for
> that would be welcome; I haven't decided if it makes sense to bump the
> notmuch schema version).
>
> Quoting https://melpa.org/#/notmuch
>
>     Note for MELPA users (and others tracking the development version
>     of notmuch-emacs):
>
>     This emacs package needs a fairly closely matched version of the
>     notmuch program. If you use the MELPA version of notmuch.el (as
>     opposed to MELPA stable), you should be prepared to track the
>     master development branch (i.e. build from git) for the notmuch
>     program as well. Upgrading notmuch-emacs too far beyond the notmuch
>     program can CAUSE YOUR EMAIL TO STOP WORKING.
>
>     TL;DR: notmuch-emacs from MELPA and notmuch from distro packages is
>     NOT SUPPORTED.
>
Maybe check version compatibility when notmuch is invoked from Emacs?

So the user (like me) immediately know that it is time to upgrade my
system...