From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove version numbers for some built-in packages? Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:41:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/x-markdown; coding=UTF-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="112572"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs developers To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 16:42:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j9WAF-000T8t-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:42:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j9WAE-0006FA-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j9W9Y-0004qu-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j9W9W-0005lx-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:51288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j9W9W-0005kb-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:41:42 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 2B64480DE9; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:41:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 630C4801AC; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:41:39 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1583336499; bh=MK0SjviGOf/jeBOSGyz2ktaOhvpGo5hmrhNLxCMVz7k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=cXmnhEQnTdYqp7rBGZFnO4kWKe41dMxWyEJxNahVUMsOj0ZAWLdbTFgklwFhd7q+7 94Y+Nty1Ld8f0KjLHxm33Ez1apVV9Cu3Y58LL5tql4ZhU1O5/np2iSAFbzOAk0AX46 HhJtO5WFW9wASxoIsGvROl0Aw1cqW6sd515001icqnlQxGWdg9NM3JrFJOj6mBKsKN ISy9gHXqhjqKi+Sfq4zYWXeMUQduq+D/V/9HjCef6O4/C8Qwo0xj0Mo/bBiufShw9V +jIzjuthlW7/Bz3kBq8Wi8k7VN2PeQiRW2cSLpDnBnz1+pE7jeBlPgI6IHSw3sdAmc Zl45SOZ/1I2sw== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [216.154.50.221]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1B71712066A; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:41:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 2020 05:38:36 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245217 Archived-At: > 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 `-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