From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Supporting multiline Package-Requires header Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:40:42 +0200 Message-ID: <8737zrcft1.fsf@members.fsf.org> References: <877fp3dxt2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439221272 16509 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2015 15:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel , Thierry Volpiatto To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 17:41:06 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 1ZOpCD-0006zb-51 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOpCC-0002ZN-LM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOpC0-0002YQ-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOpBw-0006lL-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:39097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOpBw-0006ky-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:40:48 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkcPAPTEyFWkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABdgkmsBAEBAQEBAQabPAKBfAEBAQEBAYELhCQBAQMBeRAIAw4TJQ8BBEmIOQjPZAEBCAIghh+FMoUJB4QsAQSVC4dsBY1GkSkmg388gn8BAQE Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO localhost) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 17:40:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:18:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 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:188684 Archived-At: >> I suggest keeping what we have actually for backward compatibility and >> generalize the use of a *-pkg.el file with a define-package form even >> for single file packages. > > The proposed changes don't break backwards compatbility. I understand that the new tools will work with old files, but will the new files work with the old tools ? i.e. will it be possible to install these packages to emacs 24.5 ? -- Nico.