From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:48:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180819204918.GA3934@ACM> <20180821162043.GA3946@ACM> <20180823213418.GA32596@ACM> <83lg8w9mt2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535125661 20813 195.159.176.226 (24 Aug 2018 15:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:47:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 17:47:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ftEJE-0005Gp-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:47:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftELK-0007nY-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftEKb-0007nT-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftEKb-0006Y9-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from pmta31.teksavvy.com ([76.10.157.38]:35331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftEKX-0006So-HZ; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:48:57 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2HhCgBeKIBb/8jjSC1bHAEBAQQBAQoBA?= =?us-ascii?q?YNPgVISiEOQA4INE5BkhyULhGwCgxEhOBQBAgEBAQEBAQICAmkohTkBBAF5EAs?= =?us-ascii?q?NJxIUGDGDNYF5CKUVGgKKS4kgF4IAgRKBfYEVilYCmyMJiSsFhlaBMIcDIgOFa?= =?us-ascii?q?5NEgVgigVIzGggwgyWQbiOQGAEB?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2HhCgBeKIBb/8jjSC1bHAEBAQQBAQoBAYNPgVISiEOQA4I?= =?us-ascii?q?NE5BkhyULhGwCgxEhOBQBAgEBAQEBAQICAmkohTkBBAF5EAsNJxIUGDGDNYF5C?= =?us-ascii?q?KUVGgKKS4kgF4IAgRKBfYEVilYCmyMJiSsFhlaBMIcDIgOFa5NEgVgigVIzGgg?= =?us-ascii?q?wgyWQbiOQGAEB?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.53,283,1531800000"; d="scan'208";a="44013517" Original-Received: from unknown (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([45.72.227.200]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Aug 2018 11:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2F974AE23E; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:48:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83lg8w9mt2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:43:53 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 76.10.157.38 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228872 Archived-At: >> > and is THE version of CC Mode. The proposed VERSION: header is not >> > a part of CC Mode, it is part of ELPA, recording the number of the >> > ELPA release only. >> The "Version:" header could just as well be THE version. > For packages which already have some "version" string somewhere, why > cannot we teach package.el to look for them, when it doesn't find the > "Version:" header? This Version: header is not used by package.el, by the way: instead it's used (on Emacs's master) by autoload.el, and on elpa.git it's used by the admin/archive-contents.el. Stefan