Re: Use DEFAULT argument to completing-read

APA> I assume it's Steve L. Baur, whose disappearance from APA> xemacs-.*(a)xemacs.org is still a mystery to me. Ask him. He replies to personal mail, eventually. More than that I am unwilling to say. APA> One field is called `standards-version'. Currently all APA> packages in APA> /anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp APA> have a 1.1 standards-version. How about bumping this standards-version to 21.2 for all packages known[1] to only work with (emacs-version>= 21 1)? No. Don't overload that field. Decide what functionality is needed in the package system, and add fields to support it. `standards-version' will get bumped as a side-effect of this, but only the package system should ever test that field. APA> Then it should be fairly easy to change to PUI UI to offer APA> the users to upgrade to the latest package of a certain APA> standards-version. The default could be a standards-version APA> of APA> (string-to-number APA> (format "%d.%d" emacs-major-version emacs-minor-version)) APA> to make things easy for the novice user. Although rms probably will never use the package code, you might want to put the flavor of emacs in there anyway. Make the name of the field `required-emacs-version' or something like that. The main implementation difficulty with this idea is not in the pui front end, however. It's in the back end, the archives. We need to figure out how users with needs for older package versions can get them. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."