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: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:02:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lgdpphmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87sh7mjd7d.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87lgddgaga.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87bme8b7u9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <65ee99c7-6c45-e477-d34b-8efb1aa4712d@cs.ucla.edu> <87in8f8wuw.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524657928 10704 195.159.176.226 (25 Apr 2018 12:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:05:28 +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 Wed Apr 25 14:05:24 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 1fBJAp-0002eM-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:05:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBJCu-0001lh-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBJCn-0001lY-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBJCg-00075u-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40599 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBJCf-00075T-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fBJAW-0002OB-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:05:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:whzp/45LR7rrO3E6FBi6yhN028U= 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:224866 Archived-At: >> Of course, but that doesn't mean there needs to be several different >> supported versions of the package. It just means you drop support for >> old versions, as is the case in all packages. Nothing new here: no need >> for different branches in elpa.git to go along with branches in >> emacs.git just because of that. > If we support old versions, checkpointed at a particular time in > history, then would end up supporting tags. No, the way I see it working is that the `archive-contents` file would simply list all packages that are still present in the archive, rather than only the latest. I.e. the Git side would be unaffected, only the ELPA side. Stefan