From: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
Subject: Re: some feedback on package.el changes
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:11:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28589609.BaTDc9GTni@descartes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1tvmalxn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 17:00:42 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> There was no API (package.el was only meant to provide a UI).
> As an API it was fundamentally broken (and probably is to some extent),
> so there was no way to fix the API without breaking compatibility (and
> compatibility will probably need to be broken again when the remaining
> problems get fixed).
It might not have been intended as an API but there are several projects using
it. E.g., el-get got broken several times due to the package.el changes as
well: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/pull/1756
Regards,
Rüdiger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 20:32 some feedback on package.el changes Nic Ferrier
2014-05-21 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 22:40 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-05-22 10:11 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld [this message]
2014-05-22 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-22 10:56 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-05-28 12:42 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-05-28 16:20 ` Nic Ferrier
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