From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: bzg@gnu.org, Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Version strings in lisp files?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:48:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lilpgmzf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81pqb1m9vi.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
> Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:04:41 +0530
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > AFAIK, the policy is that _if_ you want some version string in a
> > package, then keep that to a minimum (1 file). But there's no policy,
> > AFAIK, to have a version string, if Org doesn't need that.
>
> Leaving aside question of Org,
>
> ,---- from package.el
> | ;; Prefer Package-Version; if defined, the package author
> | ;; probably wants us to use it. Otherwise try Version.
> | (pkg-version
> | (or (package-strip-rcs-id (lm-header "package-version"))
> | (package-strip-rcs-id (lm-header "version"))))
> `----
That's a different issue, one that pertains to packages that are _not_
bundled with Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-21 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-21 11:27 Version strings in lisp files? Achim Gratz
2012-04-21 12:37 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 13:19 ` Bastien
2012-04-21 14:09 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 14:28 ` Bastien
2012-04-21 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-21 14:11 ` Bastien
2012-04-21 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-21 14:34 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-04-21 14:47 ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-21 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-21 19:54 ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-21 22:59 ` Bastien
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