Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org> writes: >> I'm massively unenthusiastic about this future. Things in ELPA has to >> be backwards-and-forwards compatible with a wide Emacs version range, > > no, they don't. > > That is one possible policy, but each package decides for itself whether > to follow it. You can have > > ;; package-requires: ((emacs "25.2")) > > if you want.
That's technically correct. (The best kind of correct, as they say.) But for a package archive to be useful, it should support a range of Emacs releases, otherwise users will be sad. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
