From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Jimmy Aguilar Mena <jimmy.aguilar@bsc.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package cleanup
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:44:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0ccxfxy.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nZOkg-0000nY-G1@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:12:06 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> That suggests they might have bugs and need maintenance, but it does
> not imply they are useless or obsolete. They might be obsolete, or
> not.
Indeed. There are some very useful packages that aren't maintained
anymore (i.e. yasnippet, which hasn't seen changes since 2 years, and
has no sign of that changing any time soon.)
> > I have found some packages that doesn't even work or rely on some
> > features that were obsoleted or removed.
I would rather we take a different approach: don't change anything that
will break packages on ELPA.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-30 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-29 0:43 [ELPA] Package cleanup Jimmy Aguilar Mena
2022-03-29 16:24 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-29 21:41 ` John Yates
2022-03-29 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-29 23:05 ` John Yates
2022-03-30 1:43 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-31 4:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30 7:31 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-30 8:35 ` [External] : " Stefan Monnier
2022-03-30 14:09 ` Jimmy Aguilar Mena
2022-03-30 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-31 4:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30 3:44 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-03-30 7:56 ` João Távora
2022-03-30 4:56 ` Jimmy Aguilar Mena
2022-04-01 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
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