Re: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> For packages which already have some "version" string somewhere, why
> cannot we teach package.el to look for them, when it doesn't find the
> "Version:" header?

We could implement workarounds, of course.  The more, the messier.

In the case of CC-mode, I still don't know what's so much better about
putting the version in cc-defs.el's `c-version` variable.

At least in the case of Tramp, I believe I understand the problem to be
that Michael doesn't want tools to modify human-written files, but that
explanation doesn't work for CC-mode.

> I think this should be easy to implement (we could ask the package
> maintainers to add something or use some standard format, if what we
> already have is not enough),

"Use some standard format" is exactly what "Version:" is.


        Stefan