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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where does MELPA's package versions come from?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:58:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7ptuzqx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab653f44-2996-db3c-2897-b8ea41ee22af@gmail.com> ("Clément Pit-Claudel"'s message of "Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:04:28 -0500")

>> So where does MELPA find the release version number?
> It uses git tags.

But there are no tags in that repository!

> There has not been a release of caml-mode since the repo
> moved from ocaml/ocaml to ocaml/caml-mode, so the tag remains from back when
> the package was in the main ocaml repo.

Ahhhhhh!  So the package released as 4.7.1 was build from the previous
repository, which did have a tag "4.7.1".  Gotcha!


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-13  4:35 Where does MELPA's package versions come from? Stefan Monnier
2020-11-13  5:04 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-11-13 13:09   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-13 16:43     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-11-13 13:58   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-11-13  5:18 ` Jean Louis

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