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: Version naming Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> <85wq7xcbxe.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <851tq4ree5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85tx30osjk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413767397 19783 80.91.229.3 (20 Oct 2014 01:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 03:09:50 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 1Xg1Tq-00039v-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:09:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xg1Tp-0003By-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xg1TW-0003Ax-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xg1TO-0008Qz-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:27233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xg1TO-0008Qu-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:22 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpY87/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFpY87/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="94596049" Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.143.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 19 Oct 2014 21:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 79D5E44C4; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:09:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <85tx30osjk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:53:03 -0500") 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:175571 Archived-At: > I suspect, as has been said here before, the main problem is the > maintainer effort required to make installing minor versions in parallel > possible; renaming files to include version numbers in every file > name/path for each release. dpkg doesn't do that for you. For Emacs, this is a non-issue, since Emacs already includes the release string in pretty much all the file names (with very chosen exceptions, such as "bin/emacs"). Stefan