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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Remove version numbers for some built-in packages?
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:41:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv36aow2o1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnM0VoOamFeQcREnNpQFyU=YkKqfkp5-_05z596+0m-tA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 2020 05:38:36 +0100")

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> Some examples of the packages I'm talking about:
> - checkdoc
> - delim-col
> - edmacro
> - hippie-exp
> - woman
> - edt

Yes, these packages don't really have version numbers nowadays, it's
a remnant of the past.  We should definitely remove the `<foo>-version`
variables in those cases.  The "Version:" header can be marginally
useful in some cases (I've used those things a few times last year while
digging into our past), so it'd be good to keep it somewhere, tho
I agree that it doesn't need to appear in the list of packages with
their version numbers.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-04 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-04  4:38 Remove version numbers for some built-in packages? Stefan Kangas
2020-03-04 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-05 14:20   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-21  2:00     ` Stefan Kangas

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