From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Magit obsolete ? Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:57:00 +0100 Message-ID: <86zhr649c3.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <20190207172223.21fc232f@mistral> <875ztv13ph.fsf@ada> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="67976"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 08 15:57:46 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gs7b6-000HVo-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:57:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gs7b5-00044G-Ho for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43470) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gs7aW-00044B-Vh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gs7aW-00089o-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33584 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gs7aV-00089N-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gs7aT-000GXJ-W2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:57:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:JQ50+bE6mIe3hYYBpBX9gURtYh0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119275 Archived-At: Alexis wrote: > Maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but in the > context of ELPAs like MELPA, 'obsolete' > often/usually means "a newer version of this > package is available". So if version > 20190202.1535 of Magit is available, but you > were looking at the description for an > earlier version, e.g. 20190201.2340, you'll > be told that version is "obsolete". Yeah, that's what I said in my first post. You said it better but I also said it. See? I'm smart :) But not so smart as to understand why the OP ends up with a page for an obsolete/outdated version of Magit, instead of the regular one? Perhaps the OP was such a bad boy he navigated there thru some unconventional, perhaps even obsolete method? > Of course, this is indeed a different meaning > to how 'obsolete' is used in non-ELPA Emacs > contexts, where "this library is obsolete" > often/usually means "don't use this library > any more". Perhaps this is a case when one should have obeyed tradition. However at this time there is a new tradition and if people changed it it would perhaps cause even more confusion. Obey tradition! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573