From: Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org>
To: 46441@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:46:42 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1lml74t.fsf@collares.org> (raw)
Currently, there's no way to get a permanent link to a package version
that happens to be the current one. For example, auctex is currently at
version 13.0.4; today I can download it from
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auctex-13.0.4.tar, but this link will stop
working as soon as a new version of auctex is released and the old
version gets compressed. This makes it slightly annoying to pin a
particular version of an ELPA package by URL.
I would like to ask the GNU ELPA maintainers to host both
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/PACKAGE-CURRENTVERSION.lz (permanent) as
well as https://elpa.gnu.org/packagesa/PACKAGE-CURRENTVERSION
(temporary). This would make it easier for people to build reproducible
environments by pinning a package version. I don't particularly care
about exposing it as a link on the website; for my purposes, it's enough
that the file exists. This is perhaps a little bit wasteful, but
compressed versions shouldn't be too big.
Best,
Mauricio
next reply other threads:[~2021-02-11 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 19:46 Mauricio Collares [this message]
2021-02-12 17:32 ` bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 18:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:36 ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 19:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 19:31 ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 22:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04 1:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-04 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:41 ` Mauricio Collares
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