[bug#67272] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-zop-to-char.

[Nicolas Goaziou via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> writes:


>> I disagree. Guix usually sticks to actual releases [...] Note that if the last change was that important for the author, they would have made a release out of it.
>
> Sticking to actual releases makes sense for packages that follow a
> "release-has-a-version" policy, which is common for big & popular
> ones.
>
> But there's a number [see below] of smaller, less popular elisp
> packages with infrequent contributions where the author doesn't really
> bother with a strict "tagged-releases" policy. Sometimes it's
> forgotten over the years, so "rolling-releases" become the norm.
>
> IMO that's the case for our
> https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/zop-to-char too. Our 00152aa was
> done on May 1, 2018. That's over five years ago. Waiting for 1.2
> doesn't make sense. It's probably not happening anytime soon, not even
> soon-ish, even though the 00152aa seems to be important.

I already made my point and have nothing to add to that topic.

Regards,