From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding to ELPA? Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 07:56:54 +0200 Message-ID: <8737xgd3yx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87si5k3vtt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87twpzgo1z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fv1hcpgo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877fmtcm61.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444630166 8811 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 06:09:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:09:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 08:09:25 2015 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 1ZlWIV-0005Lw-7a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:09:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlWIP-0000qi-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlWI7-0000pI-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlWI6-0007y4-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlWI4-0007x0-NQ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45544 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlWI3-000631-Tu; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A89D9E07DC; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 07:56:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:15:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:191302 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > On 11 Oct 2015 7:09 pm, "David Kastrup" wrote: >> > Couldn't you distribute the package with it? >> >> It does not really make all that much sense since this package is a >> generic MIDI input package with lots of potential uses, [...] > > Sorry, I should have expressed myself better. I meant momentarily, while we > wait for 25 to be released. > I agree this is a nice package, and should be generally available. > > I'm just thinking your users are going to try to install the package > and it's going to fail because of the 25 dep, and then they're going > to Google for Emacs 25 and won't find it. There are a number of packages in ELPA with an Emacs 25 dependency. packages/el-search/el-search.el:;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25")) packages/iterators/iterators.el:;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25")) packages/svg/svg.el:;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25")) What makes them different? -- David Kastrup