From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74036 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ELPA and Gnus Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fwv8j8vh.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87pquvldcs.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc9yp21w.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762w5f11g.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87hbfpklor.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkthdkbw.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <8762w5kjxr.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87sjz8kh3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289481677 16189 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 13:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:21:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22404@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Nov 11 14:21:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGX5U-00020b-Qt for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:21:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PGX3x-0004sX-Bi; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:19:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PGX3v-0004sK-Lk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:19:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PGX3r-00052s-H8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:19:35 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PGX3q-0002LZ-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:19:30 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGX3o-0001JR-29 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:19:28 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:19:28 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:19:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bCIZq8GZdSjBUW6FGkI3IRDbLDc= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74036 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:32:03 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> elpa as a way to pull down packages meant for the next Emacs release LMI> would be nice (I had to install erc manually in previous Emacs LMI> iterations, for instance), but that's not what's envisioned, is it? LMI> As an Emacs-Backports repository, kind of. :-) I think I've confused everyone enough. Let's take this to emacs-devel and find out for sure. FWIW I'm not making any decisions about this, just suggestions. The Emacs maintainers have the final say AFAIK. On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:06:49 +0100 Julien Danjou wrote: JD> Who will be able to upload to ELPA? How do I fix packages? And if I JD> update a package that, let's say, depends on Emacs 24.2, how will Emacs JD> 24.1 user will do? Someone will have to fix it? But if I do not want to JD> fix it, who will fix it? We're just working this out; take it to emacs-devel to have a public discussion. I'm making suggestions as I said, but won't be making policies. But if we have the discussion there we'll have a more appropriate audience. Ted