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, 21 May 2007 08:59:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179752400 11416 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 13:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 14:59:59 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 1Hq7UT-0002MA-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7UT-000845-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7Tp-0007UL-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7Tp-0007TF-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7Tp-0007Sp-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from 191.red-83-44-183.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.44.183.191] helo=alfajor.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq7Tm-0001H8-JP; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A842E1C656; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:59:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 20 May 2007 13\:05\:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71494 Archived-At: > It seems wasteful to have a file just for this define-package. Why > not get the info out of the .el files just as for a one-file package? I don't think the waste is very significant. Butm I agree that package.el could simply look for a define-package call in every .el file. And it could simply report an error if there are 2 or more such calls. > It could look at all the .el files and verify that they all agree. If > they don't, it could print an error message. If it finds different > package names in various files, it could treat them as separate packages. I think tht supporting several "packages" inside a single tarball will complicate matters significantly. OTOH, some packages include other packages for the user's (in)convenience, e.g. ProofGeneral includes a copy of X-Symbol in its tarball, so package.el somehow do something intelligent in such cases. Maybe it can recognize that it's in a dubdirectory of its own and move it out or something like that. Stefan