From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org policy Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87y68ujkjl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87k4kebiox.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbfimpp1.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87fwv2bf7h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aalaz6ey.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289859669 25629 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2010 22:21:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:21:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 23:21:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI7Q6-0005zb-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:21:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI7Q5-0003UJ-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43648 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI7Pz-0003LU-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI7Pv-0004Xq-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:55 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.101]:51494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI7Pv-0004Xm-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:51 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014113.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id oAFMKobK008627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7554D1605B3; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:20:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:46:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:132676 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it sounds to me like you're > saying that if a package is in ELPA, then the maintainer has > (implicitly) committed themselves to support older versions of Emacs in, > sort of, perpetuity. (Well, for a long time.) You mean, like Gnus? ;-)