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: Adding ELPA to Emacs core Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:53:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87efks1642.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83lgezu57f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1ujzmn3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87tvtmqnh5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87ina1ayud.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87h8pl0zjs.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520902326 2967 195.159.176.226 (13 Mar 2018 00:52:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:52:06 +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 Tue Mar 13 01:52:02 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 1evYAb-0000bR-6t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:52:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evYCc-0007kw-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evYBy-0007kk-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:53:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evYBu-0008L4-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43057 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evYBu-0008KO-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1evY9o-00086b-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:51:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MGEi6M+YZItRx8uRAb+9AJGK7Sw= 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:223673 Archived-At: > Of course, my current solution does allow use of tags instead of SHAs, > since you can use anywhere a SHA is valid in git, you can use a tag. But > I don't share your confidence that tags could be controlled on > ELPA. There are multiple branches, and even on master the "current > version" maps to multiple commits. So, you need "A-emacs-x.y.z" and > "B-emacs.x.y.z" where A and B are package names. Putting this much > semantics in a string goes against my better judgement, I think. FWIW, I tend to agree that SHAs will work at least as well as tags. Also if you want reproducibility, you need SHAs rather than tags. Stefan