From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Hagelberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrating package.el Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:16:46 -0800 Message-ID: <31edf1081003071516h522dcd31if96f7e96002bd3@mail.gmail.com> References: <87ocl242jc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d41ihx9g.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ocl167wx.fsf@hagelb.org> <8763795zsh.fsf@hagelb.org> <87r5pmwcf8.fsf@hagelb.org> <87ocjh2hyp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <31edf1081003032139t491b2339uf5202323100248c3@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268003822 15161 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 23:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 23:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 08 00:16:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoPiT-0001sU-0b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:16:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoPiS-0007ZO-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:16:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoPiN-0007ZH-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49030 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoPiL-0007Z8-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoPiK-0004ml-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f184.google.com ([209.85.222.184]:36325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoPiJ-0004mg-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: by pzk14 with SMTP id 14so1263950pzk.26 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:16:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.25.29 with SMTP id c29mr2713310wfj.111.1268003806645; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:16:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121719 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> yet. Stefan also mentioned supporting having multiple versions of the >> same project installed at once. Rather than supporting this by >> allowing multiple versions to coexist in a single install location, I >> think it makes more sense to allow multiple install locations. I > > I strongly disagree. =C2=A0I want to be able to install all kinds of vers= ions > in a single spot so I can quickly see which versions are available. OK, if that's the most important to you then we should focus on that next. I imagine it might be a fairly invasive modification though; perhaps Tom could offer some hints on how it could be implemented since he's the only one really familiar with the package activation logic? -Phil