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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Version naming
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoat7czvq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85tx30osjk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:53:03 -0500")

> I suspect, as has been said here before, the main problem is the
> maintainer effort required to make installing minor versions in parallel
> possible; renaming files to include version numbers in every file
> name/path for each release. dpkg doesn't do that for you.

For Emacs, this is a non-issue, since Emacs already includes the release
string in pretty much all the file names (with very chosen exceptions,
such as "bin/emacs").


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 17:19 Version naming Stefan Monnier
2014-09-30  4:55 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30  7:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-10  7:58   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-11  0:28     ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-11 11:18       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15  7:13         ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 10:46           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-30 14:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 14:17   ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-15 22:42   ` Rob Browning
2014-10-16  2:47     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16  6:10       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-16 13:51       ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-16 17:19         ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24  1:08           ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24  6:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-24 15:31             ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-10-16 20:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 21:31           ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-17  1:04           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-17  1:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-18 21:20           ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-18 22:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-19  2:18               ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-19  2:47                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-19 17:53                   ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-20  1:09                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-12 22:27 ` Jens K. Loewe

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