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Re: elpa.gnu.org policy
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: elpa.gnu.org policy |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:06:59 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
Lars> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it sounds to me like you're
Lars> saying that if a package is in ELPA, then the maintainer has
Lars> (implicitly) committed themselves to support older versions of Emacs in,
Lars> sort of, perpetuity. (Well, for a long time.)
A package can have a minimum emacs version dependency.
Users with an older emacs won't be able to install that package.
I think this will be ok in practice as long as most maintainers don't
constantly bump their minimum requirement to the absolute newest.
Tom
Re: ELPA policy, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/15
elpa.gnu.org policy (was: ELPA policy), Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, LluĂs, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy,
Tom Tromey <=
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- compat unification (was: elpa.gnu.org policy), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: compat unification, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/16
- Re: compat unification, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: compat unification, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/16
RE: elpa.gnu.org policy, Drew Adams, 2010/11/16
Re: ELPA policy, Tom Tromey, 2010/11/15