From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: 10838@debbugs.gnu.org, Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org>
Subject: bug#10838: 24.0.92; package.el shows a misleading version number
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:56:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gzb7bov.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wr7l7174.fsf@hagelb.org>
> There is a version of package.el which is available from
> tromey.com/elpa, which is clearly the starting point for this
> package.el, which claims to be version 0.9 in the head of the file. The
> current (and emacs23) versions contain this same version number, despite
> having significantly different features. This is misleading and
> remarkably confusing. The version numbers in both the emacs24 and
> emacs23 versions should be updated to indicate that they contain new
> features.
IMO, it's desireable for the package.el in Emacs to retain a version
number header, just in case there is any package that in turn relies on
package.el (even though sounds pretty theoretical). I propose bumping
the package.el in Emacs to 1.0. Any objection?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 18:40 bug#10838: 24.0.92; package.el shows a misleading version number Phil Hagelberg
2012-02-17 23:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-18 0:01 ` Phil Hagelberg
2012-02-18 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-25 5:23 ` Phil Hagelberg
2012-02-25 9:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-25 22:21 ` Phil Hagelberg
2012-02-25 4:56 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-02-25 5:23 ` Phil Hagelberg
2012-03-01 16:49 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-04 9:45 ` Chong Yidong
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