From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:24:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: <83bp9ex3ro.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3ts686x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281371446 2050 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 16:30:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 18:30:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiVF1-0002kI-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:30:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiVEa-00052O-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40184 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiVCm-000496-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiV9K-000834-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiV9K-00082x-Le; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o79GOTn5003458 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o79GOTKR013505; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o79GOSTp021899; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8F2A23781A0; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:24:28 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87d3ts686x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:39:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.18 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128484 Archived-At: >>>>> "Chong" == Chong Yidong writes: Chong> Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. The parts of package.el that deal Chong> with version numbers probably ought to use `version-to-list', Chong> `version-list-<', etc. Yeah. I actually took a quick look at this while writing the docs, but some places in package.el reconstruct the version string from the split version, so it looked like a change that would take more time than I have. I'm supportive if somebody else wants to take a stab at this. Tom