From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ZRXm0-0002VD-OK@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oai6lc78.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (message from Achim Gratz on Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:24:11 +0200)
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> The issue, which admittedly doesn't really have much to do with Org and
> was meant as a side remark, still stands that package manager can't
> install different packages or package versions for different Emacs
> versions. If you wanted to do that, you'd need to create an ELPA
> archive for each version of Emacs and teach people to use the right one
> for the version they currently use. That strikes me as odd.
An Org mode developer said they don't have the manpower to maintain
parallel versions of Org mode for different Emacs versions. Thus,
there is no need in this context to discuss how the package system
could handle parallel versions of Org mode.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-18 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-15 8:47 Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions? Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-16 5:07 ` Andrés Ramírez
2015-08-16 5:38 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-08-16 6:35 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-16 6:27 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-16 9:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-08-16 13:14 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-16 13:45 ` David Kastrup
2015-08-16 14:52 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-08-17 5:04 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-17 5:24 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-18 3:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-08-16 13:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-16 13:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-17 2:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-08-18 23:09 ` Bastien
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