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: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:43:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83lg8w9mt2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180819204918.GA3934@ACM> <20180821162043.GA3946@ACM> <20180823213418.GA32596@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535100286 7392 195.159.176.226 (24 Aug 2018 08:44:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 10:44:42 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 1ft7hw-0001mG-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:44:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft7k2-0000Bu-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft7iQ-00009J-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft7hQ-0003cI-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft7hP-0003c2-Rh; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4087 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ft7hP-000378-Dl; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:44:07 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:17:22 -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:228863 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:17:22 -0400 > > > and is THE version of CC Mode. The proposed VERSION: header is not > > a part of CC Mode, it is part of ELPA, recording the number of the > > ELPA release only. > > The "Version:" header could just as well be THE version. 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? 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), and should leave everyone happy. Right?