Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9145e79: * lisp/files.el: Don't allow customization of dir-locals sorting

[Juri Linkov]

>>     In retrospect, this is not a good idea for the same reason that
>>     `dir-locals-file' is a defconst, because it is important that this
>>     behaviour be "uniform across different environments and users".
>>     Sure, the user can still change the sorting with a hack, but we
>>     shouldn't encourage them to change it.
>
> I'm inclined to agree with this; but did you mention it to Eli also, who had
> suggested using version<? I think string< is the right behavior, but since we
> had discussed it, I'd like to hear from him too.

As long as we implement the same globbing as shells do,
I agree that string< is more appropriate than version<.