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Why does GNU ELPA have old package versions?
From: |
Jorge P. de Morais Neto |
Subject: |
Why does GNU ELPA have old package versions? |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:41:59 -0300 |
Hi. I noticed for several packages that GNU ELPA has older package
versions than MELPA and often even older than MELPA-Stable. Below are
packages (with names from A to F) that appear both in GNU and
MELPA-Stable, but with different versions:
| Package | GNU | MELPA-Stable | MELPA |
|-------------------+---------+--------------+---------------|
| aggressive-indent | 1.8.3 | 1.9.0 | 20200512.1207 |
| beacon | 1.3.3 | 1.3.4 | 20190104.1931 |
| coffee-mode | 0.4.1.1 | 0.6.3 | 20200315.1133 |
| company-math | 1.3 | 1.4 | 20200131.2337 |
| counsel | 0.13.1 | 0.13.0 | 20200619.1030 |
| fountain-mode | 2.7.3 | 3.1.0 | 20200620.659 |
So except for package `counsel' (out of six analyzed packages), the GNU
ELPA version is even older than MELPA-Stable. Why is that? Does GNU
ELPA have additional quality checks before including a new package
version, or is it just undermaintained? I prefer to use official GNU
software, as it generally has superior quality and ethics. However, I
also love running the latest semi-stable version of important packages;
for example, I write this on GNU Emacs 27.0.91.
Regards
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- Why does GNU ELPA have old package versions?,
Jorge P. de Morais Neto <=