From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Purcell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MELPA version numbers Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:35:13 +0100 Message-ID: <453354CA-0D08-4DEC-9B71-FEBAA715A7AA@sanityinc.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375459625 11410 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 16:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:07:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sebastian Wiesner , Donald Curtis , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 18:07:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Hsf-0000NP-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:07:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Hse-0005le-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34431) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GRy-0001Bc-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:35:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GRr-00046U-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from h1189701.stratoserver.net ([85.214.32.38]:54395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5GRq-00045y-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host81-152-63-184.range81-152.btcentralplus.com [81.152.63.184]) by h1189701.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1704B820013; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:35:14 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 85.214.32.38 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:07:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162381 Archived-At: On 2 Aug 2013, at 15:27, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> This more sophisticated way of tracking archives would not only neatly >> solve the problem of MELPA version numbers (without even touching them), > > No, it doesn't really solve the problem: most people wouldn't know when > MELPA's version is out of date. How would you know to switch archive if > package.el doesn't tell you that there's a newer version in the > "gnu" archive? Can that even happen, for longer than a MELPA build cycle? -Steve (MELPA co-maintainer)