From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62968 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: Re: Customize :package-version keyword Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:14:33 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <3518.1145405408@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145665266 10077 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2006 00:21:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11495@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Apr 22 02:21:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FX5s0-0002Hk-6b for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:21:04 +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 1FX5rt-0005Ak-00; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FX5mj-000579-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FX5mh-0001Zc-3c for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FX5mg-00013H-00 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:15:34 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FX5m8-0001eI-62 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:15:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAD1BMVEVFPTegcF+wi23BuLdw eYiBAuvjAAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAACQUlEQVQ4y1WT4ZWEIAyEwbMAghZgIgWsxgIA 6b+mmwD73h1/duEzk0kI7m3tFTlFbrmD+7NU9bFzrGj71dcB3ud9br0lSuTWAI48I159VPE9cXw1 /5c6DXAs7/OMQ0um2QATp0Lt7YCEnQd4Hz1ruoTofT4GEB68e9qKHERMG88cESbJ4a+vHSS2HN65 BVq9pEIauUaRBr8xuMDSJV2DlMgu6dGPg7o/4oHj7KqcMUaBVMsGyHlTWt2CArUKc/fqQ+h1uKUV VZS4pTRrNoSAVvkEuAvRt+jJWQwwip/t8AMsbEQTuvsvgiIzGqkX79cMCN2Uj0TIcF/TVXY79eTO e4+rVUlXsn3YtlLMxhGtT6JXEqbg8v2aMJwnOei85bxELqIfHQuxBz6EkLJcbNnGghSLbU9IJaJo 4HE5dyC8WeUVAaP4sXCPZdMNlRsYfexuK4hFXGw5xFlDOpBD0qbxBIArsU6FXqCgPEIM7JoWAPUf d+QlmS+q5u8PwHjJeW56XzRPqKcysdVmt5vqdr/m0MVNMdJYuRuK4QuIEYF5kzEdAGECPUUL7/jO pOL3bolUo94syXlMnFu+dwtwG7DrWPps2suaQFTQxOx+Dvd+1tn40fYqqWSo1/px5wCWHDG7ULM3 kXL4EyFQqtLy4prLa8tNRw4Vlkjp7alXoPWcAPO57aLPADbRdoUY6kIpCk+QXSutP15E7NDi+fwb hqEDuw3iWkt2oxvNtRWza4CpkEXM9iUY9xQ8+lFojxAPY34Q+wuMMXHGoCsEMgAAAABJRU5ErkJg gg== Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Summer and Smiles of Finland_: "Tv-Resistori - Serkut rakastaa paremmin" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5LGVhnaqU40m4+5zhJC91fk+yEo= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62968 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:12149 Archived-At: Bill Wohler 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... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen