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: Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions? Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mvxtdjkn.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp2nkasy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87oai6lc78.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439880184 5052 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2015 06:43:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 06:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 08:42:49 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 1ZRabh-00024s-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXmD-0001MX-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXm5-0001Ip-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXm3-0005bL-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXm1-0005YY-92; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXm0-0002VD-OK; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <87oai6lc78.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (message from Achim Gratz on Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:24:11 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:188862 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The issue, which admittedly doesn't really have much to do with Org and > was meant as a side remark, still stands that package manager can't > install different packages or package versions for different Emacs > versions. If you wanted to do that, you'd need to create an ELPA > archive for each version of Emacs and teach people to use the right one > for the version they currently use. That strikes me as odd. An Org mode developer said they don't have the manpower to maintain parallel versions of Org mode for different Emacs versions. Thus, there is no need in this context to discuss how the package system could handle parallel versions of Org mode. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.