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Re: Emacs Package Management
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Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Package Management |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:21:24 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Tassilo" == Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:
Tassilo> But the newest package might not run on an older emacs version.
Tassilo> So it would be good if package.el would show the latest version
Tassilo> of a package that is supposed to work with my emacs version,
Tassilo> and if it requires other packages, then their versions have to
Tassilo> be taken into account, too. Does it do something like that?
Right now, package.el defines a dummy package named "emacs" with a
version computed in the obvious way. A package can then declare a
dependency on a minimum version of Emacs.
I forget offhand what exactly package.el does here. I think it won't
let you install a package whose emacs dependency is not met (it has been
a while since I hacked on this so I don't remember its exact behavior).
In any case, it definitely won't activate such a package (you could get
one installed, for instance, by running Emacs 23, installing something,
and then running Emacs 21).
Tom
- Re: Emacs Package Management, (continued)
- 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
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tassilo Horn, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management,
Tom Tromey <=
Re: Emacs Package Management, Eric Schulte, 2009/09/13
Re: Emacs Package Management, Stephen Eilert, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/16
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Tom Tromey, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/09/17
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Phil Hagelberg, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Lennart Borgman, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Chong Yidong, 2009/09/28
- Re: Emacs Package Management, Phil Hagelberg, 2009/09/28