From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:48:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87d45vzt4j.fsf@hagelb.org> <87hbv20ybw.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253177344 31770 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2009 08:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, phil@hagelb.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 10:48:56 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 1MoCfe-0003B7-Qc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:48:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoCfd-0006VN-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoCfM-0006T7-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoCfH-0006ST-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58691 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoCfG-0006SQ-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.240]:12041) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoCfF-000054-Sx; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so109176ana.21 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:48:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=3GpO451E2/SYBa2i2K9k5PZFul+MdgTZyHSNWMErQdY=; b=hIsobklNGf+O37D7nlT/E6c43Ceh7SDsndC6pd4I4TTIo1dMRf5cy8kwTn99hcmPVl AWs6J49xCo7iC0CbRI55mbtPWcxCAtAAw9fHeeF4zP4ve2AlHxQrEoDqu7BqoEgKEbQr kuQ9IGGcPggN7+3O5erTTuwudml5pK9jqVnBI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=RwEXMQ6nmD4/9s+UCTIl+UpDvyh54fhQpKJdgphnjGgFXaI1HtHDFTcRfb/c78UrgA L2LkcWnC8LytwjNvN06xHZ/2mcy01jHz05iDJCKNvwzMVrWr1t7OX+6BwIujBdQvT+Af 9/NsmQz1i268pwypq17EDRlH2RPTTgq2QDR6I= Original-Received: by 10.101.91.20 with SMTP id t20mr10035316anl.188.1253177309135; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:48:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:115407 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM, wrote: > > The way most distros seems to solve this is to simply have different > repos for different distro versions. That should work for package.el > also. We could even adopt the stable/testing/bleeding scheme, so 3 repos > for every supported major emacs version. That seems to be much more work for a program that is in development all the time.