Re: The Android port and the Emacs web page

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > > Once the versionCode property is increased, upgraded installations
>   > > cannot be downgraded to previous Emacs releases, and on this account I
>   > > am not very ready to agree to such a change.
>
> Could you explain in somewhat more detail how this consequence arises?

`versionCode' is an integer property of every Android application
package, and the package manager records the version code of the current
installation of every program and forbids the installation of a new
version if this would reduce it.