Re: branching in packages?

Ilya> Agree that need also numbers of stable package versions - Ilya> from master package download site, That is precisely what you get with ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg, which is the database used by list-packages. By its nature, this file does *not* include packages in pre-release state, only the latest public release. That is the closest approximation we can reasonably offer to a list of stable versions. We could slightly improve on this by matching a CVS tag to it, but is there really that big a difference between a CVS tag and an authoritive list from the download site? There are also dated indexes, eg, package-index.LATEST.gpg is symlink to package-index.2006-05-08.gpg. (Currently only LATEST is available; you'd have to ask Norbert what his policy is on cleaning out the older ones and whether they're archived somewhere.) -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.