Re: The Android port and the Emacs web page

[Óscar Fuentes]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> The user can uninstall the application and then install whatever version
>> he wishes, right?
>
> Not without losing all of his data...

I'm not using Emacs on Android, but surely the user can backup and
restore the data.

>> OTOH, priorizing easy downgrading over convenient installation &
>> upgrading
>
> Installation and upgrades are just as convenient as if the versionCode
> were incremented with every major release.

No if that prevents distribution by the most popular Free Software
package manager for Android.

> The only reason this has
> arisen for discussion is that one of the scripts used by a popular
> Android package manager has not been engineered to take this into
> account.

Is it reasonable to expect that the package manager adapts its scripts
to Emacs' special case? F-Droid using versionCode for detecting new
releases is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, as versionCode is what
the developer is expected to bump to signal that.