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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
Cc: Kelvin White <kwhite@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: erc has lost its version number?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:56:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tlo8g74.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-+xABbSSBjecam7-ZBMKzKKoicjR5XyuPX9FtFhj51HGA@mail.gmail.com> (Artur Malabarba's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:09:47 -0200")

Artur> I think it would be a useful feature for built-in packages to be able
Artur> to specify "follow emacs version". This could be as simple as
Artur> specifying "emacs" on the Version header (instead of a version
Artur> number). 

If you then want to provide a separate upgrade for the package, you'll
have to come up with some new version number for it that doesn't
conflict.

I think it's simpler to just give packages their own versions, though
your suggestion seems ok if the above problem is solved sanely.

Tom



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-17 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-17 15:11 erc has lost its version number? (was: [elpa] ZNC package) Kelvin White
2015-02-17 16:09 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-17 19:15   ` Kelvin White
2015-02-17 19:56   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2015-02-17 23:38     ` erc has lost its version number? Artur Malabarba

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