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: ELPA and older emacs package updates Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:15:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2135101700.336098.1543224288103@webmail.surftown.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543241665 25414 195.159.176.226 (26 Nov 2018 14:14:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:14:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 15:14:21 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 1gRHeV-0006SO-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:14:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRHgb-0006Qs-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRHgK-0006Py-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:16:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRHgG-0000iC-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38711 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRHgG-0000gR-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRHe7-0005q0-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:13:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lWVTuEqTk+VjSXzWspNj/C0ppHc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:231394 Archived-At: > Just found out about ELPA and I think it's great. However, would it be > possible to also add packages to ELPA that's introduced in later Emacs > versions? We do do that for some packages, yes. > E.g. I'm currently on my distribution-packaged version of Emacs 25, > but would really like to use the mhtml-mode introduced in Emacs 26. > Wouldn't it make sense to add these type of packages in ELPA as well > for all the older Emacs versions out there? I'd be happy to make such a package, but I have the impression that mhtml-mode.el won't work as-is in Emacs-25 because it relies on changes to html-mode, css-mode, ... Maybe we can make it work by exporting some of Emacs's builtin packages (like css-mode.el and html-mode.el) to GNU ELPA and then to export mhtml-mode.el as well, with dependencies on those newer versions. Could you try it on your Emacs-25? I.e. take Emacs-26's mhtml-mode.el see if it works, if it doesn't see if copying Emacs-26's css-mode.el or html-mode.el (or other) improves things... Once you found a set of files that do work, we can see about making the corresponding packages. Stefan