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Re: Magit obsolete ?


From: Alexis
Subject: Re: Magit obsolete ?
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:14:34 +1100
User-agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 26.1


jonetsu <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> writes:

Hello, I'm looking for git support within emacs. After browsing here and there it looks like Magit would be a good contender. The latest update on the Magit web page is from the end of last year. The version in
melpa seems even more recent: 20190202.1535.

However the first two description lines of the package in melpa are:

magit is an available obsolete package.

Status: Available Obsolete from melpa

What gives ?

Maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but in the context of ELPAs like MELPA, 'obsolete' often/usually means "a newer version of this package is available". So if version 20190202.1535 of Magit is available, but you were looking at the description for an earlier version, e.g. 20190201.2340, you'll be told that version is "obsolete".

Of course, this is indeed a different meaning to how 'obsolete' is used in non-ELPA Emacs contexts, where "this library is obsolete" often/usually means "don't use this library any more".


Alexis.



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