From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 10:02:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83d0u77wut.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180819204918.GA3934@ACM> <20180821162043.GA3946@ACM> <20180823213418.GA32596@ACM> <83lg8w9mt2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535180432 29244 195.159.176.226 (25 Aug 2018 07:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 07:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 09:00:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ftSYe-0007XD-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:00:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftSak-00056x-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44829) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftSaT-00056C-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftSaO-0004rn-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:02:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftSaM-0004qc-Qy; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:02:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4995 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ftSaK-0001LY-Er; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:02:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:19 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228887 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:19 -0400 > > > For packages which already have some "version" string somewhere, why > > cannot we teach package.el to look for them, when it doesn't find the > > "Version:" header? > > We could implement workarounds, of course. The more, the messier. Yes, software engineering in general and practical solutions to non-trivial problems are sometimes messier than we'd like to. > > I think this should be easy to implement (we could ask the package > > maintainers to add something or use some standard format, if what we > > already have is not enough), > > "Use some standard format" is exactly what "Version:" is. Well, read that as "some additional standard format", okay?