[DRAFT PATCH] emacs: notmuch-version and version comparison with CLI

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sun, Jul 21 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at 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