From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:31:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po2nz1rr.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwowv1on9.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:02:38 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Of course, but that doesn't mean there needs to be several different
>>> supported versions of the package. It just means you drop support for
>>> old versions, as is the case in all packages. Nothing new here: no need
>>> for different branches in elpa.git to go along with branches in
>>> emacs.git just because of that.
>> If we support old versions, checkpointed at a particular time in
>> history, then would end up supporting tags.
>
> No, the way I see it working is that the `archive-contents` file would
> simply list all packages that are still present in the archive, rather
> than only the latest. I.e. the Git side would be unaffected, only the
> ELPA side.
How would that be generated? I mean, it would be based on the packages
that are already there? I think that this would make generating ELPA
from a git clone would not work, unless you work through every commit
looking for changes in "Version:" number.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-14 5:54 RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-14 12:24 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-14 22:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-14 22:46 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-15 6:18 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2018-04-16 5:21 ` John Wiegley
2018-04-16 14:53 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-16 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-16 20:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-17 3:37 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-23 12:53 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 16:21 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 21:41 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-24 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 0:42 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-25 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 9:21 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 12:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 16:31 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2018-04-25 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-26 14:59 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 9:19 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-25 16:32 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 20:16 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-26 15:02 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-26 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-27 9:57 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-27 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-17 3:23 ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-17 4:56 ` John Wiegley
2018-04-17 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-17 15:13 ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-18 23:11 ` Stephen Leake
2018-04-23 12:57 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 15:29 ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-14 22:13 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-14 13:34 ` Glenn Morris
2018-04-14 17:10 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-14 17:38 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-15 21:20 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-16 3:11 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-04-16 12:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-16 17:09 ` Achim Gratz
2018-04-16 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-16 18:14 ` Achim Gratz
2018-04-23 12:45 ` Phillip Lord
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