<div dir="ltr"><div>Why would ASDF not understand "version later than 20201015"? I am perfectly fine with using the full 8 digit timestamp.</div><div><br></div><div>MA<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:24 PM Robert Goldman <<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info">rpgoldman@sift.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 18 Nov 2021, at 7:35, Eric Timmons wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 11/18/21 3:45 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:<br>
>> Sorry but I am missing something.<br>
>><br>
>> It was said in this thread (don't remember who, apologies) that<br>
>><br>
>> YYYYMMDD<br>
>><br>
>> would work. Will it?<br>
><br>
> Yes. YYYYMMDD is currently a valid version string (assuming it's all <br>
> digits). Whatever we choose will allow a superset of what's already <br>
> allowed.<br>
><br>
> -Eric<br>
<br>
That's true, but possibly stating the obvious: ASDF does not <br>
"understand" a version string like that. So you can't say "any version <br>
since October 2020 will work." Getting something like that to work would <br>
be an exercise for the extension protocol.<br>
<br>
This actually might make a good test case for us to see if the proposed <br>
protocol (versioning method keyword initarg for defsystem) makes sense.<br>
<br>
R<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01<br>DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 <a href="http://dcb.disco.unimib.it" target="_blank">http://dcb.disco.unimib.it</a><br>Viale Sarca 336<br>I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY<br></div></div></div></div>