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Re: Emacs Package Management
From: |
Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Package Management |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:55:08 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
RMS> Supporting the latest Gnus on old versions of Emacs already
RMS> complicates things. If Emacs does not come with a copy of Gnus, we
RMS> will also be asked to support running an old Gnus in a new Emacs,
RMS> which will square the difficulty.
package.el only lets users install the latest version of a package that
is available in the package archive. Older versions are not displayed
in the package menu.
Of course, a user might upgrade Emacs but not upgrade existing packages.
And, this may cause something to stop working. I did not see a way to
solve this problem, and anyhow it is not any worse than the currently
existing situation with 3rd party .el libraries.
Tom
- Re: Emacs Package Management, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Package Management, David Kastrup, 2009/09/14
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/15
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Miles Bader, 2009/09/15
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/15
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/15
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Miles Bader, 2009/09/15
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Geoff Gole, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/17
Re: Emacs Package Management,
Tom Tromey <=
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tassilo Horn, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, joakim, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Lennart Borgman, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tassilo Horn, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Lennart Borgman, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Rupert Swarbrick, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Bob Rogers, 2009/09/18
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Rupert Swarbrick, 2009/09/19
Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/17