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: Emacs Package Management Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87d45vzt4j.fsf@hagelb.org> <87hbv20ybw.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253195265 24990 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2009 13:47:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, phil@hagelb.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 15:47:38 2009 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 1MoHKj-0000iG-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:47:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHKi-00037v-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHJd-0002RZ-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHJY-0002L4-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37873 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHJY-0002Kw-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:56926 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoHJX-00087Q-3K; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq8EAPLZsUpFxKiJ/2dsb2JhbACBU80SCJATgkAIgVAFh38 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,403,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="45858673" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-137.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.137]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2009 09:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D4719827E; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:37:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115412 Archived-At: >> But the newest package might not run on an older emacs version. So it >> would be good if package.el would show the latest version of a package >> that is supposed to work with my emacs version, and if it requires other >> packages, then their versions have to be taken into account, too. Does >> it do something like that? > The way most distros seems to solve this is to simply have different > repos for different distro versions. That should work for package.el > also. We could even adopt the stable/testing/bleeding scheme, so 3 repos > for every supported major emacs version. FWIW, Debian does not solve this problem by using 3 different repositories. It uses "precise" version dependencies between packages instead. Stefan