From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Supporting multiline Package-Requires header Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:05:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877fp3dxt2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439244465 547 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2015 22:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 00:07:37 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 1ZOvEG-0002ex-E8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:07:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOvEF-0008UP-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOvC0-0004U2-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOvBt-0005U3-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:35698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOvBt-0005Tq-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:05:09 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AsEwA731xV//gFNJ1cgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQYCAR+LOoUFB4QtBYtEjioFmxEjhBQigngBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0AsEwA731xV//gFNJ1cgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQYCAR+LOoUFB4QtBYtEjioFmxEjhBQigngBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="159387125" Original-Received: from 157-52-5-248.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([157.52.5.248]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 18:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0ABE061783; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:05:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877fp3dxt2.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:26:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:188714 Archived-At: > I suggest keeping what we have actually for backward compatibility and > generalize the use of a *-pkg.el file with a define-package form even > for single file packages. How would that work? I mean a single-file package, as the name implies, is made up of a single file, so where would you put the *-pkg.el? Stefan PS: FWIW, the elpa.git source code used to make GNU ELPA's packages doesn't use *-pkg.el files (instead they're built from the lisp-mnt headers when constructing the tarball).