Re: Customize :package-version keyword

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> The :version keyword (used in defcustom, defgroup, and defface) isn't
> very helpful for packages such as MH-E (and probably Gnus as well) which
> have releases more often than Emacs. For example, MH-E has had two major
> releases and a score of minor releases.

I'm a bit fuzzy on what :version is trying to achieve.  Are users
supposed to list new options that have arrived since some other
version?  And have any users ever done this?  :-)

> After broaching this subject on emacs-devel
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/51453), I ended up
> implementing :package-version using ideas provided by Richard. If you
> add, for example,
>
>   :package-version '(MH-E . "8.0")

Makes sense to me, I think.  On the other hand, I've always considered
the version of Gnus included with Emacs/XEmacs the "real" version,
on the vague idea that most Gnus users uses the pre-packaged version
of Gnus.  (I have no data that supports this notion.  :-)

So I'm not quite sure I feel that this level of detailed user-visible
versioning is required...

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