Re: New package system design draft
>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew O Persico
<mpersico(a)erols.com> writes:
Matthew> A lot of this looks suspiciously like perl. This is a GOOd thing.
Matthew> Larry and his crew have got packages down cold. Emulation can't
Matthew> but help.
Oh god, what nonsense ...
Matthew> "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" wrote:
>
> The following constraint must hold:
>
> Two different author versions of a package must have different
> versions as well.
Matthew> They better have completely different names, period.
You misunderstand the concept of "author version." Reread the draft.
Matthew> Hmm. Foo-1.4, Foo-1.5, etc. That may be fine for buildnig the package or
Matthew> even identifying it (a-la Perl modules), but what's going to be the
Matthew> mechanism for determining which installed Foo will be used? I say keep
Matthew> the version OUT of the final install directory structures.
From the draft:
(use-package <package-specification>)
This indicates a preference for a package matching the specification
to XEmacs. This means that, in the future, no other packages with the
same name may be used in the running XEmacs. It also has the
side-effect of making the package's autoloads available.
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Cheers =8-} Chipsy
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