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: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180819204918.GA3934@ACM> <20180821162043.GA3946@ACM> <20180823213418.GA32596@ACM> <83lg8w9mt2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535152237 3442 195.159.176.226 (24 Aug 2018 23:10:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 23:10:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 01:10:32 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 1ftLDn-0000Tp-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 01:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftKPN-0006tR-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftKOT-0006sa-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftKOQ-0000Ln-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:56337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftKOQ-0000Ip-1i; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w7OMHJ6X022586; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 43CD869F77; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:17:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83lg8w9mt2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:43:53 +0300") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6359=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6359> : inlines <6828> : streams <1796460> : uri <2695360> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:228880 Archived-At: > For packages which already have some "version" string somewhere, why > cannot we teach package.el to look for them, when it doesn't find the > "Version:" header? We could implement workarounds, of course. The more, the messier. In the case of CC-mode, I still don't know what's so much better about putting the version in cc-defs.el's `c-version` variable. At least in the case of Tramp, I believe I understand the problem to be that Michael doesn't want tools to modify human-written files, but that explanation doesn't work for CC-mode. > I think this should be easy to implement (we could ask the package > maintainers to add something or use some standard format, if what we > already have is not enough), "Use some standard format" is exactly what "Version:" is. Stefan