Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core

[Phillip Lord]

Radon Rosborough <address@hidden> writes:

>> There's a case to be made for allowing ELPA archives to exports several
>> versions of a package at the same time, so older Emacsen can still
>> install the old version of a package without having to download the old
>> version by hand.
>
> For another perspective, see also source-based package managers like
> straight.el [1], Borg [2], el-get [3], et cetera, which easily bypass
> this problem by allowing you to install any version you want, and to
> change your mind after installation.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
> [2]: https://github.com/emacscollective/borg
> [3]: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

More than I knew about. Replacing package.el would indeed be a way
forward (although you'd need to run both in parallel for a while).

Phil