From: "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>
To: "Philip Kaludercic" <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:05:14 +0300 [thread overview]
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To be clear - I'm not arguing against the inclusion of this. :-) Assuming the package maintainers know what they are doing, that'd be perfectly fine by me.
> Not quite, the time stamp is appended to the regular version number.
Well, normally there's no "regular version" when you're doing rolling releases. If there is - those would not be rolling releases, but snapshots between regular releases. I know that MELPA preserves the original version, but I think that doesn't make sense for a real rolling release.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev> writes:
>
> > Instead of setting version numbers manually (e.g. 0.1, 0.2) upon
> > release time, with rolling releases every change (commit) pushed
> > upstream results automatically in a new release and a version bump,
> > with the version being a timestamp.
>
> Not quite, the time stamp is appended to the regular version number.
>
> > E.g. if I push 3 commits one day
> > with some time between them this will result in 3 releases. I think
> > it's a great approach for snapshot (devel) repos, but I'm not so sure
> > about "stable" repos, as it kinda of implies that the author will
> > never have their project in an inconsistent state (e.g. halfway
> > towards a new feature).
>
> Right, so it would only be used whenever a package author prefers that
> method of development.
>
> > This approach was made popular by https://melpa.org/
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, at 11:14 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> >> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> >> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> >> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> >>
> >> > I have heard from people who prefer a rolling release model for their
> >> > packages,
> >>
> >> Can you explain what that means, concretely? How is t different from
> >> what we do now?
>
> It is currently necessary to bump the version tag in the package header
> to indicate that a release is to be made. If a package specification
> has a non-nil :rolling-release tag, then this is done whenever the
> repository is synchronised.
>
> >> and requested that their packages not be added for {Non,}GNU
> >> > ELPA if they would have to update the version header manually,
> >> > presumably on every commit.
> >>
> >> Is this something we would _want_ to do? What would its implications
> >> be for Emacs?
>
> It wouldn't affect Emacs, just packages that request this kind of
> release management.
>
> >> We might decide to support their style of release, or decide not to
> >> include their packages in NonGNU ELPA, or we might come up with
> >> another solution. I don't know what's best. But I'm sure we should
> >> think about that before we decide.
>
> If the only issue a package has is that it is developed using a "rolling
> release" model, it would be nonsensical for us to not accommodate the
> request and reject a (perhaps popular) package on that ground.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-22 10:31 Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-23 4:47 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2022-10-23 8:43 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 6:14 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24 6:45 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-24 8:07 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24 14:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 19:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 16:00 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 16:39 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-26 19:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-24 15:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 17:27 ` Stephen Leake
2022-10-24 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 6:32 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 11:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 15:27 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:31 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 19:07 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-25 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-26 5:10 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26 6:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 8:05 ` Bozhidar Batsov [this message]
2022-10-26 19:18 ` Richard Stallman
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2022-10-26 5:58 Payas Relekar
2022-10-26 8:07 ` Bozhidar Batsov
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