From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org policy Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:06:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87k4kebiox.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbfimpp1.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87fwv2bf7h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aalaz6ey.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289858844 21729 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2010 22:07:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:07:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 23:07:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI7Cn-00075x-6Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:07:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI7Cm-0006ym-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46562 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI7Cg-0006xt-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI7CY-0000o2-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI7CX-0000nl-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oAFM71OG019175 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAFM700D005390; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oAFM701U014161; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id BA0AD3784EE; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:06:59 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:46:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132672 Archived-At: >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it sounds to me like you're Lars> saying that if a package is in ELPA, then the maintainer has Lars> (implicitly) committed themselves to support older versions of Emacs in, Lars> sort of, perpetuity. (Well, for a long time.) A package can have a minimum emacs version dependency. Users with an older emacs won't be able to install that package. I think this will be ok in practice as long as most maintainers don't constantly bump their minimum requirement to the absolute newest. Tom