From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version strings in lisp files? Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:14:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83mx65goj2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fwbxe34b.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83sjfxgpy8.fsf@gnu.org> <878vhpxjhj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335017702 30158 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 14:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 16:15:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb5R-0001nZ-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:14:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb5Q-0003O9-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb5L-0003Nz-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:14:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb5G-0005Lb-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLb5B-0005Dl-Gr; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M2U0080025J5D00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:14:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.172.156]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M2U007OU28BYR80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:14:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <878vhpxjhj.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149908 Archived-At: > From: Bastien > Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:11:36 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Achim Gratz > >> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:27:48 +0200 > >> > >> Bastien (the org maintainer) tells me that Emacs requires a version > >> string to be present in org.el, what's the rationale for that? > > > > I don't know why Bastien said that, Lisp files generally don't need > > any version strings in them. I guess we need to ask Bastien to > > explain himself. > > IIRC, during on of the Org>Emacs merge, I was advised to remove version > strings from all org*.el/ob*.el files except org.el. Gnus and ERC does > this too. > > So I thought this was related to some policy. > > But I'm fine with removing this line if it is not required. AFAIK, the policy is that _if_ you want some version string in a package, then keep that to a minimum (1 file). But there's no policy, AFAIK, to have a version string, if Org doesn't need that. However, please wait for Stefan and Chong to give you the definitive word on the current policy.