Re: unsupported packages area in the Emacs repo

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden> writes:

Jonas> The current implementation is able to generate what I call "epkg"
Jonas> a sexp like this:

Jonas>  :provided   (elx)
Jonas>  :required   ((("dconv" dconv)
Jonas>               ("emacs" cl lisp-mnt)
Jonas>               ("vcomp" vcomp)))

You really need versions, not just package names.
It is common for a package to require a relatively new version of some
other package.

package.el already does this.  What it does is sufficient for many
purposes, but still not completely ideal... there have been cases of
packages being obsoleted by some other package, and package.el has no
notion of this.

Jonas> [Tom: I also have some patches for `package.el' and will send
Jonas> them to you once I find the time to work on it. I would have
Jonas> contacted you some time in January but since this discussion is
Jonas> talking place now: Hi! I hope we will work together well!]

Sure thing.

Tom