From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: 62750@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade'
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:36:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm53eC8fz=cgBhmBHdbi4eWz1=NHNZj9NiTBz-XubDTJt+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1mxrz90.fsf@posteo.net>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:45 PM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> >>> It's annoyingly late to rename, but if we rename without compatibility
> >>> aliases (which seems to be an option since these are new in Emacs-29),
> >>> then I'd be in favor.
> >>
> >> What are compatibility aliases? I must have missed something?
> >
> > I thought we'd rename `package-update` to `package-upgrade` by adding
> > the new name and marking the old name as an obsolete alias (a
> > "compatibility alias").
> >
> > I hadn't realized that `package-update` hasn't been in a release yet, so
> > we don't need such a compatibility alias.
>
> If this were to happen, I'd like to also be able to rename the analogous
> package-vc commands to upgrade as well.
>
> (On a related topic I have been wondering if package-update should
> handle package-vc packages at all, or if that was a mistake?)
Also, in the off-chance that no-one has noticed yet the new
package-update-*commands and the older package-menu*upgrade
commands use entirely different logic to discover what _can_
be updated. Only by sheer skill or luck will this logic match exactly.
João
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-12 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-10 12:53 bug#62750: 29.0.50; Commands 'package-update' and 'package-update-all' should be called '*-upgrade' Adam Porter
2023-04-10 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-10 13:25 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-10 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-11 21:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-04-11 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-12 7:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-12 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-12 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-12 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-15 1:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-04-23 23:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-04-24 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-24 17:28 ` Adam Porter
2023-04-24 18:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-04-24 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-24 19:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-05-01 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 13:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-04-12 13:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-12 14:36 ` João Távora [this message]
2023-04-19 22:23 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-27 23:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-04-28 14:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
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