Re: Packages for old Emacs versions

[Philip Kaludercic]

Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> writes:

>> My fear is that with further upstream development,
>> there might be conflicts between the packages I inherit from (emacs,
>> emacs-no-x, emacs-minimal) and the packages I have definined in [1].
>> An easy fix might be to not rely on the upstream package definitions,
>> but I am not certain if there are any down-sides I haven't considered.
>>
>> Of course, if the Guix project isn't interested in providing old
>> versions of packages, then I will continue look into maintaining my own
>> channel.
>
> I don’t have much experience with the Guix projects and its preferences
> and practices, so I can’t tell if it would be interested or not,
> unfortunately. I just wanted to mention that if not, another upstreaming
> option could be the Guix-Past channel:
>
> https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past

While interesting, this appears to be a closed project, so I am
uncertain how I could contribute my package definitions upstream.

Would it be unconventional for me to try and set up my own repository?

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic