auctex 11.88 numeration scheme

Uwe Brauer writes: No, AFAIK, not possible without "fixing" the package management libraries. They don't recognize anything but the xx.yy format. Presumably changing this would involve patches to 21.4, 21.5, and SXEmacs. This is fine. VM already does this. But VM has historically been willing to cooperate with XEmacs needs (ie, a new release with XEmacs changes in it). I doubt AUCTeX would. This is problematic. I don't think the package functions can handle this at all currently. The problem with patches to enable this is where do you stop? The Debian scheme is gross because it tries to cater to pretty much any upstream versioning system. For example, what if AUCTeX brown-bags the release and decides to release 11.88-a itself? Debian's scheme can handle that. Or if they decide to change to a 3-part scheme and start over at 1.0.0? Debian can handle that, too. Python has come up with official versioning guidelines (reasonably flexible but not insanely so). But they can do that because they are in control of their package distribution network (PyPI) and have a lot of power over upstream packages for that reason. That's not true of XEmacs. That information is already available in M-x list-packages, i command. I think it's preferable to improve the informational functionality of list-packages (perhaps show upstream versions by default, and XEmacs package versions only on demand), which would also provide the same benefit to other packages. I think your best solution is use auctex-11.88-pkg.tar.gz and hope you never need the modifiers. Although I don't know what happens after AUCTeX v11.99, which doesn't seem that far off. Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta