From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87d45vzt4j.fsf@hagelb.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253169474 9214 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2009 06:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phil@hagelb.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 08:37:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MoAcW-0007MT-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:37:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoAcV-0005Iz-GA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoAcP-0005Iu-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoAcK-0005Id-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51836 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoAcK-0005Ia-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39194) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoAcJ-0006JB-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MoAcI-0005HW-Uq; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:37:18 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:55:08 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115403 Archived-At: RMS> Supporting the latest Gnus on old versions of Emacs already RMS> complicates things. If Emacs does not come with a copy of Gnus, we RMS> will also be asked to support running an old Gnus in a new Emacs, RMS> which will square the difficulty. package.el only lets users install the latest version of a package that is available in the package archive. Older versions are not displayed in the package menu. I agree that will avoid that problem, if people install things like Gnus only through package.el.