Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

> Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> #+begin_quote
>>>>   Since we do not make stable releases (effectively, it is just rolling on
>>>>   `master`, I think we should just clarify that users should use `melpa`, and if
>>>>   possible expunge the package from `melpa-stable` etc.
>>>> #+end_quote
>>>>
>>>> [1]: <https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/issues/212#issuecomment-2328150198>
>>>
>>> If that is so, then we can also mark the ELPA package as using a
>>> rolling-release model, i.e. the build server prepares a new tarball
>>> every time is synchronises new commits.
>>
>> I believe that that would be desirable, and the accurate thing in the
>> case of julia-mode.  Could you please confirm when that change has been
>> made.
>
> It seems the maintainers are considering switching to semantic
> versioning (version 1.0.0 onwards).  See
> <https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/pull/213> for
> details.  Please don't switch to a rolling-release model.

No problem.

>> Additionally, could you please point me to where the "rolling-release
>> model" is documented?  A search for "rolling" in
>> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/plain/README> didn't
>> yield any matches.
>
> Regardless, please do share the reference to the documentation when you
> get a chance.

I think we sent our previous messages just at the same time.  But for
the sake of anyone following the archives, I'll give the link here
again:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/README?h=elpa-admin&id=9bd65395f1d4875915731ddbdd73a471f10d7794#n215

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	Philip Kaludercic on siskin