From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 08:40:25 +0530 Message-ID: References: <86646mjvxp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <2cd46e7f0705251413y975af0bwbd7c6709814fd915@mail.gmail.com> <85wsywysob.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180321835 12858 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2007 03:10:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 03:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "David Kastrup" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 28 05:10:34 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 1HsVcw-00051x-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 May 2007 05:10:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HsVcv-0004Zd-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HsVcr-0004Vb-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HsVcp-0004Qz-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HsVcp-0004Ql-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HsVcp-0006SV-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 34so1708447ugf for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 20:10:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SA3wXMXfCBgFmItJp4lUpX3wcxXbEpX/sD3pGmkgTOmL38yXKDOabD2mtN2lKhXisiRnz3G04rYfN9KQLkodl756lx0ioSDQQ/bRmn/dIBqf7O24C93aCY9zQDyv8H27w8a9neroXf96nBXv8Ng76JVqcVnEY3lmyshj+OPjfSY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OeNFFlqr7idANbkyyVqlxhqnapBKSO63s+KbmOlvLcW0D8ZtHitQY3MalzLv/NO+r7zZpnU91bhi9fqOGhJVK9e96GsD0Uzec0p/7WxDVGQCwfSROBa/ELmZWn7DLFc4kTKSt5QoWkB2X0NVMUIDLvkr3kYVpV2DR1YaCjQ7Vo0= Original-Received: by 10.78.151.3 with SMTP id y3mr758138hud.1180321825786; Sun, 27 May 2007 20:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.204.9 with HTTP; Sun, 27 May 2007 20:10:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <85wsywysob.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:71867 Archived-At: Hi, On 5/26/07, David Kastrup wrote: > I don't know how often I will have to repeat that point: a central > repository requirement is something which is not going to work out > well. Packages should be able to know where they originate by > themselves. A quick thought: Is it feasible/practical to have a keyword in the comment area of the file "providing" the package with list of depedencies and their locations? If the locations are not given, we could assume that it in the same location where the main package is hosted OR is part of emacs distro. -dky -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Contents reflect my personal views only!