Re: ":version" entries in defcustoms

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Mon, Sep 20 2004, Miles Bader wrote:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> I don't know what to do with libraries as pgg*.el.  Should we add
>> `:version "21.4"' to all defcustoms there?
>
> Is there a reason not to?

None, AFAIK.

At least the following Lisp files are new in Oort Gnus (did I miss
some?):

  compface.el deuglify.el dig.el dns.el gnus-delay.el gnus-dired.el \
  gnus-fun.el gpg-ring.el gpg.el html2text.el message-utils.el \
  mm-extern.el mm-url.el mml-sec.el mml-smime.el mml1991.el \
  mml2015.el netrc.el nnmaildir.el nnnil.el nnrss.el nnwfm.el \
  pgg*.el sieve*.el smime.el spam.el tls.el yenc.el

Could someone add the versions in (some of) the news files or better
write some function to do this semi-automatically.  ;-)

> I'd suggest adding some sort of unique placeholder when the code gets
> originally written, e.g.:
>
>    :version "21.4" ;; rainbow-orangutan
>
> so that later filling in the real version becomes a simple grep (or
> tags-query-replace) job.

Good idea.  How about...

   :version "22.0" ;; New in No Gnus

No Gnus will most probably not go into Emacs 21.*.  (We could also use
21.99 or similar.)

Could someone do this for all the new defcustoms in No Gnus?

> [The actual value needs to be a real version because
> `customize-version-lessp' barfs if you give it anything else]

BTW:

,----
| (defun customize-version-lessp (version1 version2)
|   ;; Why are the versions strings, and given that they are, why aren't
|   ;; they converted to numbers and compared as such here?  -- fx
| 
|   ;; In case someone made a mistake and left out the quotes
|   ;; in the :version value.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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