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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: ":version" entries in defcustoms
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:29:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluisa9ki3q.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9wtyqf1jw.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> I don't know what to do with libraries as pgg*.el.  Should we add
> `:version "21.4"' to all defcustoms there?

Is there a reason not to?

> Adding the custom version later (like I did) is annoying.  How can we
> simplify this in the future?  The problem is that we don't know the
> correct Emacs version number (which Emacs will contain this version of
> Gnus) to add when adding a variable in Gnus.

How about the approach of adding the proper :version cookies when the
files are integrated into Emacs?  Then you know which version number
to use (i.e., the next one).  If Gnus developers start to guess next
non-bugfix Emacs release numbers, things might be more difficult when
merging Gnus into Emacs in case the guess was wrong.  If there is a
better way, then that's better, but I don't see it.




  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-19 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-19 20:26 Reiner Steib
2004-09-19 22:29 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-09-19 23:02   ` Miles Bader
2004-09-20 16:39     ` Reiner Steib
2004-09-20 17:18       ` Simon Josefsson

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