Hypothetical of course but what about bug fix workarounds?
I.e behave like x instead of y if >1.7 < 1.7.3
Or requiring 1.10.1 as something didn't work right on the first release of
the feature?

Andy
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 at 14:31, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:52:52 +0000 Mike Blumenkrantz
> <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said:
>
> > I am trying to avoid using the efl version defines because they don't
> > indicate if it's the prerelease from git, meaning that the features
> aren't
> > usable until the release occurs; not very helpful if I want a feature to
> be
> > active now when it's supported.
>
> that's all we have. you can test to see if it works without the ifdef and
> add
> it back then and leave it until release... :/
>
> > It seems like this should be something available; perhaps we need to
> > #define EFL_VERSION_MICRO for it?
>
> that was never meant to be exposed because no new features were meant to be
> exposed on micro versions - this is a temporary thing until next release.
> exposing micro i think is possibly bad as it may encourage people to think
> features can be added during micro versions. :)
>
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:49 PM Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:44:42 +0000 Mike Blumenkrantz
> > > <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said:
> > >
> > > > It's possible to #define constants in embryo, such as ones used for
> > > version
> > > > checking. I haven't found any reference for how to detect them in a
> > > script,
> > > > however. Any #if directive gets handled by epp during edje
> compilation,
> > > and
> > > > using other statements involving the constant will result in compile
> > > > failure due to undefined references.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any sample code for this in existence?
> > > yeah... that's a problem. epp gets to the #... before embryo_cc ... so
> > > there is
> > > no way to do #if.... you CAN use defines from default.inc as they
> expand
> > > later
> > > but you cant #if etc. ... the best way to do this is use
> EFL_VERSION_MAJOR
> > > and
> > > EFL_VERSION_MINOR that are defined and know that efl is distributed
> and
> > > required to be "in step" so
> > >
> > > #if (EFL_VERSION_MAJOR >= 1) && (EFL_VERSION_MINOR >= 18)
> > > ...
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > for example :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am"
> --------------
> > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com
> > >
> > >
>
>
> --
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> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com
>
>
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