Re: Where does MELPA's package versions come from?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

> So where does MELPA find the release version number?

It uses git tags.  There has not been a release of caml-mode since the repo 
moved from ocaml/ocaml to ocaml/caml-mode, so the tag remains from back when 
the package was in the main ocaml repo.

The move happened in January 2019 
(https://github.com/melpa/melpa/commit/d5459264336dec5c94da1e5194dfc4776c8130c7),
 which is consistent with OCaml being in version 4.07.1 (released Oct 2018, 
4.08 was in June 2019).

Clément

On 11/12/20 11:35 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> E.g. at https://stable.melpa.org/#/camlhttps://github.com/ocaml/caml-mode
> 
> I see that the package is released as version 4.7.1 but I can't figure
> out where this info comes from: the recipe is
> 
>     (caml :repo "ocaml/caml-mode" :fetcher github)
> 
> and the code at https://github.com/ocaml/caml-mode doesn't seem to say
> "4.7.1" anywhere either.
> 
> So where does MELPA find the release version number?
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
>