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: CVS is the `released version' Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:23:54 -0600 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179697421 17391 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2007 21:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 23:43:40 2007 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 4.50) id 1HptBh-00009o-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 23:43:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HptBg-0003Q5-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HptBd-0003P7-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HptBd-0003OW-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HptBd-0003OO-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HptBc-0004h7-8g; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4KLhQlL012279; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4KLhPfa000564; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4KLhOll012976; Sun, 20 May 2007 17:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 02FD037839C; Sun, 20 May 2007 15:23:54 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 20 May 2007 13\:05\:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71452 Archived-At: >>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman writes: rms> It seems wasteful to have a file just for this define-package. Why rms> not get the info out of the .el files just as for a one-file package? rms> It could look at all the .el files and verify that they all agree. If rms> they don't, it could print an error message. If it finds different rms> package names in various files, it could treat them as separate packages. rms> I think this would in most cases simplify the packaging. Thanks, I will think about this. Single-file packages were actually an add-on to package.el, initially I was only going to support tar archives. Right now package.el manages packages in a very simple way -- they are just unpacked underneath ~/.emacs.d/elpa/, and there is a straightforward correspondence between package name+version and directory name. Having multiple packages in a single directory would seem to require changing this... not sure I want to do that. But I will brainstorm a bit. Tom