> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgu...@yandex.ru> > Cc: l...@metapensiero.it, joa...@verona.se, emacs-de...@gnu.org, > b...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, sdl....@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:18:19 +0400 > > >> I like the idea of stripping big bundled packages (like org, gnus, > >> cedet, maybe even tramp, if that's possible). > > > > That would certainly mean more problems for users to set them up with > > a particular version of Emacs, because there's no longer a clear way > > of getting the version of package X that correspond to Emacs version > > N.M. > > There won't be such correspondence.
And therein lies the problem. > AFAIK, all 4 packages I mentioned above maintain backward compatible > codebases, so it's not like they depend on the latest Emacs. When I install a package, I usually want its latest *stable* version that is compatible with the Emacs version I run. As great as compatibility stuff is, I trust testing more, as I need to do something each day that doesn't involve debugging Emacs and my other tools. Also think about various package managers for GNU/Linux distros, which need to specify on what version of Emacs package X depends.
