From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH] emacs: notmuch-version and version comparison with
	CLI
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	<87li508ggn.fsf@qmul.ac.uk>
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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:49:44 +0300
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On Sun, Jul 21 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I think I would prefer some more specific versioning so that we don't
> have the warning unless we think we might need it. I often run notmuch
> over ssh and the two sides are often minorly out of sync so I think I
> would find a warning each time irritating. 
>
> Maybe basing the message on "version + commits since last release" with
>   emacs knowing some minimum acceptable version?

Yes... something that is flexible to the user and doesn't cause heavy
maintenance burden to the developers...

BTW we (already?) have this ;)

| Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
|
|  Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
|  the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.

(NEWS for notmuch 0.15 -- that relates with --format-version)

>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark

Tomi