Re: The Android port and the Emacs web page

[Óscar Fuentes]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>>   > > 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.

The user can uninstall the application and then install whatever version
he wishes, right?

OTOH, priorizing easy downgrading over convenient installation &
upgrading is a tell-tale sign of an application that is still on a
semi-broken state, and AFAIK Emacs on Android has surpassed that level
long time ago.