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
prev parent 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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