Re: [CONCERN] Orgmode version string

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Hello Bastien

Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> writes:

> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have every reason to believe that upcoming version of Org would be
>> tagged as 7.02. Earlier I had argued that version strings be
>> version-to-list compatible. I would like to reiterate it.
>>
>> My real concern is that 7.02 would be deemed as equivalent to 7.2
>> internally by the versioning subsystem and this is likely to clash with
>> user's point of view. A user would *definitely* assume 7.02 as different
>> from 7.2 and in all probability swear that former is inferior to the
>> later.
>>
>> Please confirm what I am saying by evalling this:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>   (version-list-= (version-to-list "7.02") (version-to-list "7.2"))
>> #+end_src
>
> I confirm.
>
>> Ignore this mail if it is already taken care of. Needless to say, I have
>> ELPA-tarballs in mind when I say this.
>
> Another way is to make Emacs more liberal about version names.
>
> Can you suggest a new default for `version-regexp-alist' so that
> 7.01 is considered older than 7.10?

I don't think I can sell this to emacs-devel with any success. It's not
really worth it.

I think I have made a sensible argument (or atleast recorded my
opinion).  I will leave things at that.

>
> (version-list-= (version-to-list "7.02") (version-to-list "7.2"))
> being t is not intuitive.

Jambunathan K.