From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version naming Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:19:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87wq80q6eh.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413479995 22495 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 17:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:19:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Barry Warsaw , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 19:19:48 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 1XeoiI-0000XQ-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:19:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51400 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeoiH-00029Q-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeohw-00023J-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeohs-0006Eo-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from defaultvalue.org ([70.85.129.156]:58736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeohs-0006Ej-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: rlb@defaultvalue.org) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C0CA20A20; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:19:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4DA914E1B2; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:19:18 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 70.85.129.156 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:175470 Archived-At: Barry Warsaw writes: > It depends. We can install multiple different versions of Python > simultaneously, including both Python 2[*] and Python 3, but it took a lot of > work both in upstream and in Debian by the Python maintainers to make that > happen. I suspect we handle emacsXY in a roughly similar way -- but I don't think either one is /opt style; I suspect both follow the FHS. The info pages complicate things a bit since we have to have /usr/share/info/emacs-XY. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4