Subject: bug#48404: 28.0.50; "Invalid version syntax" errors with read-extended-command

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 17:10:40 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 15:54:43 +0200
> 
> >> >> (version-to-list "28.1 Magit/2.5")
> >> >
> >
> > The main purpose is to compare versions.  How would you do that with
> > loose version strings such as the one above?
> 
> We're looking at the Emacs version (which we'd put first in the version
> string, while the rest is essentially a free text used as a comment).

What do you mean by "first"?  We already support the likes of
"28.3 Beta3", and "Beta3" is not ignored there as some free-text
comment.

And that is assuming the developers of 3rd-party packages can have
some reasonable way of associating their versions with Emacs versions,
which I still think is a problem with no solution.