From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Misleading messages about new versions Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:14:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24985"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 05:22:07 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nJSsJ-0006Jz-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:22:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42888 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJSsH-0002rB-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJSl7-0003na-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48944 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJSl6-00036W-Lp; Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:14:40 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=2u8XvSBuL3SZINqmX21loSK/q3ennJA+g/tjJ2TQLxM=; b=SCV7paI5MVtw B2uC3oHbMoXvgEiGZIHkQucKNohOwgbCj2qKWm1dtgYX+sKq+qBJTY+ciyGjhVZE1EXtRrrv87AMo AonX5dY3eRctEzPSKvDZIfZc1fjn+fnbPhm1y00WCdhbhb2PhsBb3oFtc9y43eKUamVnanoOTHGbs 0uuMnHJoPXqTjxrFS6TZYeOcmWwsjnZ5DEAvfZ9SPOlS5LV9kiVNoz8RoeEoP2BWzPwABwAlB2OP6 UgaXTz4l5XmfSI60erMgkTGgIhgp9KU65XVspAnco8CojZkWz7Xums2+Fj15m28NGR01DZFRhdgFt 8RdXjq7LN1/ZSZPT1HqZ4w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJSl6-0001Qa-Ej; Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:14:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:36:06 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286236 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. ]]] > As mentioned in the other thread (about the "dual" request), this is just > a small matter of programming. Would you like to implement distinguishing them? The two messages should be very different so that no one fails to recognize which is which. Here are messages I suggest. I think they should make the point very clear. For a new package, it could say, We're glad to announce adding the new package Whatsit to XXGNU ELPA. The initial version number is X.Y. Here's what Whatsit does: For a new version, it could say, The package Whatsit in XXGNU ELPA now has a new version, X.Y. Here's what the package does: -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)