From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ryan Yeske Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070514184115.8D82814267@owie.lan> References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <864pmfzz3c.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <17992.31731.577467.566308@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179168254 10723 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2007 18:44:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 20:44:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnfWh-00052e-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 20:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnfeU-0002ok-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnfeP-0002kK-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnfeM-0002i3-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnfeM-0002i0-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from shawmail.shawcable.com ([64.59.128.220] helo=bpd2mo2no.prod.shawcable.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HnfWX-0001Rm-BP; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from bpd2mi5no.prod.shawcable.com (bpd2mi5no-qfe3.prod.shawcable.com [10.0.184.160]) by bpd2mo2no.prod.shawcable.com (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JI100KK2O19KG10@bpd2mo2no.prod.shawcable.com>; Mon, 14 May 2007 12:43:57 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from mail.emmett.ca ([68.146.204.233]) by bpd2mi5no.prod.shawcable.com (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JI100EDDO6OFVA0@bpd2mi5no.prod.shawcable.com>; Mon, 14 May 2007 12:47:12 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.emmett.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BC3417A3; Mon, 14 May 2007 12:43:56 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from mail.emmett.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sputnik.emmett.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28293-05; Mon, 14 May 2007 12:43:53 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from owie.lan (unknown [10.18.1.1]) by mail.emmett.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85A241799; Mon, 14 May 2007 12:43:53 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by owie.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8D82814267; Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:15 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <17992.31731.577467.566308@localhost.localdomain> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (clamav) at mail.emmett.ca X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71059 Archived-At: David> Once one has a central repository, there is no significant advantage David> over not having packages but instead putting everything inside of David> Emacs. I don't agree. The biggest benefit I see is that packages can be updated on the package maintainer's schedule. Emacs, on the other hand, is updated on the Emacs maintainers' schedule. There's also the fact that there are useful Emacs packages which will never be included in Emacs. There is also no reason that we couldn't extend package.el to read from multiple repositories, much like Debian's sources.list file, for those familiar with that system. That way, I could maintain an up-to-date package repository for my personal projects if people wanted the bleeding edge versions that weren't yet in the 'central' repository. If people wanted access to these package versions, they would simple add 'ftp://yeske.ca/elpa' to their list of package-repositories. Ryan