From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58514 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ":version" entries in defcustoms Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:29:45 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095633090 19692 80.91.229.6 (19 Sep 2004 22:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7052@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 20 00:31:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9ADG-00027q-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:31:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C9ACN-0003Eq-00; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C9ACF-0003Ei-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C9ACD-0003l4-JF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308903A0206 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:30:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9AC8-0005Bz-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:30:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gBTNQh83s8j1eiGyYo132mm5OlU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58514 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58514 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.