Re: On release numbering

[Mark Diekhans]

ELPA is really important!!

There is already a ticket for ELPA (I filed 
   https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm/-/issues/438

Can you add all the things that are needed to support ELPA to
this ticket? I think we can knock the off quickly.

Mark

Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader 
<viewmail-info@nongnu.org> writes:
> >> gitlab main should have a version number of 8.3.x.
> > Awesome.   I'd suggest you/we append the latest git tag/commit number
> > into the version string. then it's *really* clear what's happening.
> 
> FWIW, NonGNU ELPA needs the `Version:` to have a valid version number in
> the file that's stored in Git (which means it can't hold its own commit
> ID).  In the long run, I'd expect NonGNU ELPA to be the main way users
> install the package, so it's probably a good idea to focus on removing
> obstacles to the use of NonGNU ELPA.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
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