From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:12:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbl243lwa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6hpkrj5.fsf@gmail.com> (Tim Cross's message of "Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:04:53 +1100")
> While I like the idea of being able to use package version to help
> manage this, the problem is there is no standardisation of package
> version formats. This makes calculation of which version is before/after
> another version unreliable.
FWIW, `package.el` does impose some convention for version
representation (basically, whatever can be parsed by `version-to-list`)
which provides a proper ordering between versions.
[ I don't have much to add to the rest of the discussion, sorry. ]
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-28 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 9:31 PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 10:18 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 10:20 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 12:16 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-27 13:30 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-27 20:36 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-28 7:22 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-28 7:51 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-28 1:04 ` Tim Cross
2021-11-28 4:23 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-28 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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