From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 18:31:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179613954 25555 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2007 22:32:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tromey@redhat.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 00:32:33 2007 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 1HpXTU-000092-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 00:32:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpXTU-0007iD-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 18:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpXSQ-0006ac-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 18:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpXSP-0006Z3-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 18:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpXSP-0006Yq-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 18:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpXSO-0005CD-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 18:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpXSN-0000FA-0E; Sat, 19 May 2007 18:31:23 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Fri, 18 May 2007 17:31:43 -0600) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71398 Archived-At: It is only needed for multi-file packages. Essentially package.el needs 3 pieces of information about a package: its name, its version number, and its requirements. For a single-file package these are extracted from comments; package.el defines a new comment header ("Package-Requires") for requirements, but so far I think this is unused. For a multi-file package the problem is just knowing where to look to get this information. It seemed simplest to have the package maintainer provide it in a well-known place. I think I understand. Can you show me the specs for define-package?