Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] emacs: add notmuch-version.el.tmpl and create notmuch-version.el from it

Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] emacs: add notmuch-version.el.tmpl and create notmuch-version.el from it

Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 07:15:15 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

>
> This is more due to the template-to-file conversion simplicity than need
> and I thought there is no harm having the copyright there. At least the
> file is consistent with others in that sense.

OK, I can live with it.

>
> All of these are of type string, and the documentation states whether 
> it is (at least close to) numeric or not within string. But there is
> no tradition of what *-version should contain.

I think depending on the contents of a string to be parseable in any
particular way is probably a bad idea in any case, particularly in a
lisp where you can just make the variable the appropriate type...

d


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