From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:22:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87ws3x9y0i.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87d45vzt4j.fsf@hagelb.org> <87hbv20ybw.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87d45p29zr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253215398 830 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2009 19:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phil@hagelb.org, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 21:23:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MoMZS-0004Zl-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoMZS-0007f6-D9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoMZO-0007db-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoMZJ-0007aW-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48358 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoMZI-0007a6-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:01 -0400 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:55867) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoMZH-0006aB-9F; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11226B46C; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=mxXwDxlaqt6lyysemqriY9DsFf4=; b=N0yVexcL3PAXEtX52In5WfP7hLAvx0Oz4bdohaaLKEtdUdb/2m8p7LQwWu/uLvPvg0KUTZ2UQjv8zKvBFa8pgMIaLLCCkQpCWD7//NmG/AyirjV4TKHkBj/M56ZkRqOUunG3QfUR62y+iqbf6qPXAZCIhnviUjyL8WtnBmdQJbY= X-Sasl-enc: xtCtT/1A8Z2Jza7x6GqQCuyeGAtTegMSA3QaoEYqKutd 1253215378 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF2596.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.37.150]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 907964C0E7; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:24:09 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115427 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: Hi Tom, > Tassilo> So when I run emacs 22, package.el would show version 0.8 of > Tassilo> my-package, with emacs 23 it would show version 1.0, and with > Tassilo> emacs 21 it wouldn't be shown as not installable. > > I didn't do this, either. I think few people bounce between Emacs > versions this way. The problem is not that people frequently switch versions, but that some distros like RedHat Enterprise Linux still ship with Emacs 21. For example org-mode dropped emacs 21 support at 6.27, so version 6.26 should be displayed in package.el running in emacs 21, although the newest version is 6.30. Bye, Tassilo