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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: "Jostein Kjønigsen" <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>,
	"Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>,
	"Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	jostein@kjonigsen.net
Subject: Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:27:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpmeh6n64.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czah43fk.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Mon,  24 Oct 2022 16:00:31 +0000")

>> This is the default operation for MELPA, which arguably has more
>> popular packages than ELPA.
> To my knowledge all of the major packages on MELPA are also available
> via GNU or NonGNU ELPA, so I don't know if this is really an argument.

For some packages (e.g. haml-mode and smartparens), we actually use the
`:version-map` hack to make releases, for lack of a `:version:` header.
So while it's not a common problem, it's real.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-24 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-22 10:31 Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-23  4:47 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2022-10-23  8:43   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24  6:14   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24  6:45     ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-24  8:07       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24 14:06       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 19:18         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 16:00       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 16:39         ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-26 19:18           ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:27         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-10-24 15:58     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 17:27     ` Stephen Leake
2022-10-24 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26  6:32   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 11:57     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 15:27       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:31       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 19:07           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-25 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-26  5:10   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26  6:30     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26  8:05       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26 19:18       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-26  5:58 Payas Relekar
2022-10-26  8:07 ` Bozhidar Batsov

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