From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el] Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:55:19 +0100 Message-ID: <8761pt36jg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <20140103.200846.1574807089640559527.cokesboy@gmail.com> <87a9f8g22x.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <76f5b9cd-3452-4189-b3a0-30dc55a3ee55@default> <87wqic65kj.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874n5gfvjv.fsf@mac.com> <93a2d060-c7f8-4ce3-9bff-f7397be690ff@default> <874n5fhn1j.fsf@schjetne.se> <87eh4izr0o.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <8761pus6k7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389256015 4832 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 08:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 09:27:01 2014 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 1W1Ax9-00066p-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Ax8-0001eQ-FT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Ax0-0001d2-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Awu-0002ud-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:39605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Awu-0002uZ-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79FE1A8462; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:26:43 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bu3anPRFUbfE; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:26:43 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tsdh@gnu.org Original-Received: from thinkpad-t61 (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 953341A8455; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:26:16 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <8761pus6k7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:54:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: Achim Gratz , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 141.26.64.15 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:167872 Archived-At: Achim Gratz writes: >> I said earlier in this thread that I thought recommending a package >> archive other than ELPA was a very bad idea. The licence issue is >> just one reason. > > Currently, if multiple package archives offer the same packages, then > the archive offering the highest version number wins (which is always > MELPA, based on how they construct their version numbers). Is that true? I have MELPA enabled, and for packages that appear both in GNU ELPA and MELPA, I get for example diff-hl 1.5.1 available gnu Highlight uncommitted changes diff-hl 20131114.53 available melpa Highlight uncommitted changes so that I can decide to either use the stable release or the bleeding edge version. Bye, Tassilo