Re: The Android port and the Emacs web page

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

Is it possible to uninstall the package first, and then install using a
package with a lower version number?