Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:24:17 +0200, Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?= said:
Is it really so difficult? I'd guess the package maintainers
know
which versions are required. So they could put that in the Makefile.
The hypothetical maintainer of foo.el may know that foo-1.3 need bar-1.6,
and that foo-1.4 needs bar-1.6.5, but may not know that installing bar-1.7
screws his code up gloriously (usually because he departed after foo-1.3
was released).
And we can't rely on the owner of bar-1.7 to add a "SCREWS(foo < 1.5)"
to
his Makefile either...
/Valdis
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