From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:02:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87po2mqadm.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87lgdpphmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87sh7mjd7d.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87lgddgaga.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87bme8b7u9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87lgdbz1p1.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524754888 23120 195.159.176.226 (26 Apr 2018 15:01:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:01:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 17:01:23 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 1fBiOh-0005vr-CV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:01:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBiQo-0008H1-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBiPc-0008Dk-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBiPY-0004fi-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:02:20 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:54444) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBiPY-0004fM-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:02:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=dHzPXgVyRBH2kZLGmr/WBTmKu8OREpbs3Z6lx6lAVVc=; b=mrqH5K/8ExEdvGgpeK33xYHcj d/n7hGQj2V1xljExI20pmTzUCgwqQMwLbsanspfk66Iz5dmXPRKlr7xt4H43JsULU/sa8SNSYYoom aVQB3/QNfuLxselBJmhyOtJ9qlwzfXu7xzApNwfyfYt5lIhChehlB57hEwT17SmV9wTS/ZHFOFUWa Rn2Yot8wTwaiRU/lbskRKWyiyz5phcn0cbbVFz0fZGRezX+etHsKdFA/vMoLY5WONY4pMGSOTg2oa hcid2fM/BhFQZBtL1DSwDSpfLnpNgrkj4FAoL5Yxn3joXgVU1Mod4eyXrE5dJDduqr3fZUYUKKd1q 7/OeEuUOQ==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-124.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.124]:53241 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fBiPU-003OVA-SZ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:02:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:55:18 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 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:224908 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> More than I knew about. Replacing package.el would indeed be a way >> forward (although you'd need to run both in parallel for a while). > > They're so close to each other that rather than replacing them, they > need to be merged or modularized so that they build on top of each > other. > > package.el is not nearly as constraining as people tend to think. I'd just like it to cope with several versions and with Emacs version dependencies. Phil