From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:20:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <87y7jsf0yd.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <17992.31534.969910.687746@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179163237 23676 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2007 17:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thien-Thi Nguyen , joakim@verona.se, rms@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 19:20:35 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 1HneDq-0002Js-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 19:20:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HneLc-000442-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HneLZ-00043x-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HneLX-00043l-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HneLX-00043i-6U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts25.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188] helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HneDh-00089r-In; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.144.218]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070514172024.KJQT13710.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 933DC8042; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:20:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <17992.31534.969910.687746@localhost.localdomain> (Tom Tromey's message of "Mon\, 14 May 2007 08\:07\:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:71050 Archived-At: > Most modifications I've had to make in practice have been along the > lines of fixing the formatting of the "foo.el ends here" comment, or > adding a "Version:" header. AFAIK, even those requirements could be dropped. After all, most single-file packages are "self-contained" and no other package depends on it, so version-information for dependency tracking is really a luxury more than a need for those. Stefan