From: Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>,
Donald Curtis <dcurtis@milkbox.net>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MELPA version numbers
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:35:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453354CA-0D08-4DEC-9B71-FEBAA715A7AA@sanityinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1u6cchqt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 2 Aug 2013, at 15:27, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> This more sophisticated way of tracking archives would not only neatly
>> solve the problem of MELPA version numbers (without even touching them),
>
> No, it doesn't really solve the problem: most people wouldn't know when
> MELPA's version is out of date. How would you know to switch archive if
> package.el doesn't tell you that there's a newer version in the
> "gnu" archive?
Can that even happen, for longer than a MELPA build cycle?
-Steve (MELPA co-maintainer)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-02 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 17:50 MELPA version numbers Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 20:49 ` Donald Curtis
2013-08-01 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-02 8:26 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-08-02 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-02 14:35 ` Steve Purcell [this message]
2013-08-02 15:24 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-08-02 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-02 15:58 ` Steve Purcell
2013-08-01 20:51 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-08-01 20:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-08-02 14:46 ` Steve Purcell
2013-08-02 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
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