Re: [nongnu] main 385623dca6 2/2: * elpa-packages (notmuch): New package.

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Wed 21 Dec 2022 at 07:53AM -04, David Bremner wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>>
>> I know that you don't want to commit notmuch-pkg.el to git, and that's
>> in fact undesirable from a NonGNU ELPA point of view, it turns out.  But
>> given how there is already version.txt and version.py, could we have a
>> header in notmuch.el too, do you think?
>
> The existence of version.py is a bug that we hope to fix soon. It is
> used only by the obsolete and deprecated python bindings. Current
> bindings (under bindings/python-cffi) use version.txt.
>
> Adding a version header to notmuch.el and maintaining it
> semi-automatically in the way version.py is seems more fragile (sed'ing
> a file also edited by humans) and more work (the code to generate
> notmuch-pkg.el already exists).

Okay, thanks.  We can investigate whether we can get the
branch-filtering script to substitute in the version.

-- 
Sean Whitton