From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Tom Willemse <tom@ryuslash.org>
Cc: 15108@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15108: 24.3.50; Package dependency documentation
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:57:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ae8e584-105f-4ba4-9126-6087067ad7d8@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfvuacnf6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > The values `foo', `(foo)' and `((foo))' all cause an error to be
> > signaled by `package-buffer-info'. This seems to me that there is no
> > "possibly" about it.
>
> Indeed a lot of the code assumes that there's a version number in there,
> but some of the code does try to handle a nil value as well.
> I think it would be desirable to make it possible to leave the version
> number unspecified.
+1; a BIG +1.
You can use `Package Requires ((foo "0"))' as a workaround, but it's
silly that you have to do that. If a library is not versioned, or if
for some reason any version of it will do for the package that requires
it, it should be possible to use just `Package Requires ((foo))'.
Furthermore, if no library is required, it should be possible to omit
a `Package-Requires' altogether - that should be equivalent to
`Package-Requires ()'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-16 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-16 0:23 bug#15108: 24.3.50; Package dependency documentation Tom Willemse
2013-08-16 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-16 6:57 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-08-16 7:35 ` Tom Willemse
2013-08-16 7:46 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-16 8:06 ` Tom Willemse
2013-08-16 20:58 ` bug#15108: More flexible package dependency specification Tom Willemse
2013-12-11 20:29 ` bug#15108: [Patch] Updated package dependencies Tom Willemse
2013-12-11 20:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-11 21:24 ` bug#15108: " Tom Willemse
2013-12-11 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-11 22:52 ` bug#15108: [Patch] Updated package dependencies, again Tom Willemse
2013-12-12 18:30 ` bug#15108: [Patch] Updated package dependencies Stefan Monnier
2013-12-12 19:23 ` Tom Willemse
2013-12-15 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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