Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC8E431FBC for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 03:16:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B9SJWriuI1Q9 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.xen14.node3324.gplhost.com (gitolite.debian.net [87.98.215.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C665A431FB6 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by mx.xen14.node3324.gplhost.com with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WX6aW-0007Td-Pz; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:15:36 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 20491 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:15:15 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Tomi Ollila , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] emacs: add notmuch-version.el.tmpl and create notmuch-version.el from it In-Reply-To: References: <1395261431-24668-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> <1395261431-24668-2-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> <87a9by47wh.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+174~g4efbc9f (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 07:15:15 -0300 Message-ID: <871tx9h2do.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:16:51 -0000 Tomi Ollila 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