unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Proposed Minor-mode] Speed of thought Lisp
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:29:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA01p3p=Jw=3t+uP=or10q6ixp7Yx48bb3_egZTz3O_fZtGnuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C7D78F.3020701@yandex.ru>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 01/27/2015 08:19 PM, Oleh Krehel wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to get any version other than the last one from the
>> `package-list-packages' interface?
>
>
> Not really: package.el has no support for this feature.
>
> Not only it would have to allow the user to pick, the package archives would
> have to include the different versions they have in the output, which seems
> like a breaking change (unless they list the packages many times, each with
> a different version, which will linearly increase the download time).

But see the bottom of e.g. https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/company.html,
the old versions are actually available for download.  And
`url-retrieve` - `package-install-from-buffer` combo would actually
work, there's just no interface for it yet.



      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-24 16:38 [Proposed Minor-mode] Speed of thought Lisp (was: Abbrevs for the most frequent elisp symbols) Artur Malabarba
2015-01-25 14:49 ` [Proposed Minor-mode] Speed of thought Lisp Stefan Monnier
2015-01-26 19:37   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-26 21:01     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-26 23:46       ` Rasmus
2015-01-27  2:17         ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-27  3:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-27 12:28 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-01-27 13:57   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-27 14:15     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-01-27 15:25       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-27 15:40         ` Oleh Krehel
2015-01-27 16:40           ` Rasmus
2015-01-27 18:19             ` Oleh Krehel
2015-01-27 18:23               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-27 18:29                 ` Oleh Krehel [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='CAA01p3p=Jw=3t+uP=or10q6ixp7Yx48bb3_egZTz3O_fZtGnuw@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=ohwoeowho@gmail.com \
    --cc=dgutov@yandex.ru \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=rasmus@gmx.us \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).