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: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:31:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87po2nz1rr.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87lgdpphmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87sh7mjd7d.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87lgddgaga.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87bme8b7u9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <65ee99c7-6c45-e477-d34b-8efb1aa4712d@cs.ucla.edu> <87in8f8wuw.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524673789 24735 195.159.176.226 (25 Apr 2018 16:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:29:49 +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 Wed Apr 25 18:29:44 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 1fBNIe-0006KG-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:29:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBNKk-0007E9-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:31:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBNK4-0007E2-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:31:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBNK1-0004U3-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:59101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBNK1-0004Sw-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:31:09 -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=ivCZby69FE0OkABDlpg4d9KvUFXDTKqaxWynfgZlARA=; b=G+/JwkgITN48/fOiaFJ1jqrSL D7YSTSTwnQgb2RsRHp3qtfagGpBx7od7uY0F8ePKQGCJMiS3YyZlgCei5h7826OVMfTf2hLcSaw+x nD1fGYFwyKxFTjJMJZW+z9RtWQ4TumEip+c3jX7SB8fJwXQ5JuJ3rksBFNOqiVhZZDjPJFBe/3x/r uglNesJi7ZCd8xvaM7gD4TMcyOYw4ObJCygBO2uXmjZhAL3rZStXpIJqtlK0GNZD8rjYukZ1kzlGm noF36s74rVOSPzclfw4y4/zyIvcv+6ht3qgFjgY8pu9C5IMeaDmgjedXfEPdgWh/7u1R+zLttsCgm s8rBx2RFA==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-124.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.124]:41300 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 1fBNJx-002fN8-I2; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:31:05 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:02:38 -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:224877 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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