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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding ELPA to Emacs core
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:16:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsh938ytu.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3ivc3lj.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:00:56 +0000")

> One issue with my branch so far is that the packages that I have copied
> into the build become built-in, and package.el doesn't see versions on
> ELPA as upgrades.

This is normally done via package--builtin-versions, set in loaddefs.el,
generated from lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el.

> Say Emacs-27 bundles bob-3.1.el which is also in ELPA. Now bob-4.1.el is
> released which is an upgrade. So surely Emacs-27 should offer to update?
> But, then bob-5.1.el comes out along with Emacs-28 and bob-5.1.el does
> not support Emacs-27. Now Emacs-27 should no longer install
> bob-5.1.el. But surely, it should allow installation of bob-4.1.el.

This problem is not specific to "Emacs with ELPA packages", tho.

But yes, it's a problem that would be good to fix.


        Stefan



      reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-10 12:13 Adding ELPA to Emacs core Phillip Lord
2018-03-10 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 20:44   ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-11  3:56     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-11 22:03       ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-12 19:16         ` Achim Gratz
2018-03-12 21:11           ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-13  0:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-13 17:00               ` Phillip Lord
2018-03-13 21:16                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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