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>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> Could you separate out the Gnus version number from the rest of the
>> string:
>> "Gnus v5.2.1"
>> Eg.  Pull out the 5.2.1 (or whatever) into a separate variable?

Lars> I suppose.  But shouldn't the alpha prefixes fit into the scheme?

Yes.  I'm interested in something I can reference at runtime that will
help me find the gnus source tree, which means something I can map
back to sgnus-0.97/*, or gnus-5.2.1/*, or rgnus-0.11/*.

Lars> `gnus-continuum-version' takes a Gnus version string and returns a
Lars> floating point number.  September is greater than 5.1, and 5.2 is
Lars> greater than September, and Red is greater than 5.2, etc.  (This
Lars> function is broken in 5.2.1, by the way.)

I wasn't aware of this function.  This is very nice, but not exactly
what I was asking for.  It doesn't look like 5.0.14 and 5.0.15 (which
came after 5.1) are treated correctly.

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