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 12:43:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87d45vzt4j.fsf@hagelb.org> <87hbv20ybw.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87d45p29zr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253184312 20667 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2009 10:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , phil@hagelb.org, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 12:45:05 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 1MoEU3-0005Jx-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoEU2-0000JZ-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoETU-0008Jj-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoETP-0008HF-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41594 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoETP-0008H6-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.240]:7745) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoETL-0005UK-OH; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so133234ana.21 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:44:19 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TlbWpNrMZGCWaz7O91Nz0vLSy/Dv9Nr2//0OoOhg3sM=; b=VOTObnz6sheVIzxdk4XEZVc28aQM+sEZjxkDmLtcFW6/lpRBi9RapsoggUavg5irnR RjfX4kNPWW92RcLYWoBWgIn59hzasr3u9/3Xzu3aL/vRMfzbFlzP/nth+pLCIqQBLAqi Z4acAHvvy6ntgJA2lSxiRb7kLa16saY5TnSLs= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=Tehg9gwly36OahT50V700JdlavXoKNcxt6tOQSmIusV5OyV1ZnX1K5Pk4qYjp09Xe8 zfUXkJNXaI3GkaZbr7SfHBaUIl+Ig5K5CQUdEu96cmYsSn4pu+CilwuR7g/AkpWjj00r aUCOUYlQ2SH31LLeY6bN85NH0FueKANziGIaE= Original-Received: by 10.100.244.24 with SMTP id r24mr10206865anh.8.1253184259119; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:44:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87d45p29zr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> 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:115409 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Tassilo Horn wro= te: >> >> 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. > > I don't think that's a good approach, because it requires a lot of > maintenance and testing on the package repository side. =C2=A0It would be > better if a package could specify something like > > =C2=A0(package "my-package" > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(version "1.0") > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(need ">=3Demacs-23")) > > =C2=A0(package "my-package" > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(version "0.8") > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(need ">=3Demacs-22.1" " > and package.el does the resolving. I agree, but I also think it should match against development sources checkout date.