xemacs-package for VM 8.0.8

[Steve Youngs]

* Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

  > Vin Shelton writes:
  >> 2008/2/22 Steve Youngs <steve at sxemacs.org>:

  >> >  Take my advice... don't.  Sooner or later they _will_ get out of sync so
  >> >  there's no point in trying.  You can always get to the upstream version
  >> >  via #'package-get-info anyway...
  >> 
  >> IMHO, Steve is correct.

  > As far as it goes.  The problem is that the primary sources of help
  > with a package like VM[1] want to know VM's AUTHOR_VERSION, not the
  > XEmacs package VERSION.  AUTHOR_VERSION should be the main information
  > that users see, not the bogus XEmacs VERSION.  This is a fundamental
  > design flaw in the package system.

The information is there, it's just not in your face.  Hit `i' on one of
the packages listed in PUI's buffer, or turn on balloon-help and put
your rat on one.

I don't think AUTHOR_VERSION should replace XE VERSION in the *Packages*
buffer because there are very often multiple XE VERSION's for each
AUTHOR_VERSION for any given package (and vice verse too).  However, I
think it _would_ be an improvement to have both versions listed.  To
keep it neat, you'd want to move to a 2 line per package display though.


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