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Re: PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages |
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Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:12:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> While I like the idea of being able to use package version to help
> manage this, the problem is there is no standardisation of package
> version formats. This makes calculation of which version is before/after
> another version unreliable.
FWIW, `package.el` does impose some convention for version
representation (basically, whatever can be parsed by `version-to-list`)
which provides a proper ordering between versions.
[ I don't have much to add to the rest of the discussion, sorry. ]
Stefan