Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@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?

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

-- 
 Bastien

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