Re: package-vc support for :files keyword

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Hi Philip, et al,

> For the record, these are all the repositories in {Non,}GNU ELPA that
> develop multiple packages in a single repository:
> 
> GNU ELPA:
> http://www.dr-qubit.org/git/predictive.git
> https://github.com/oantolin/embark
> https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
> https://github.com/abo-abo/hydra
> https://github.com/alphapapa/taxy.el.git
> 
> From what I understand, there is no technical necessity for this mode of
> development?  I wonder how difficult it would be to push for a
> one-package-one-repo approach.

Please note out that while `taxy' and `taxy-magit-section' are both 
developed in "taxy.el.git", they are in separate branches, so there is 
no need to build the two packages from a single set of files by 
excluding some files and then the others.

I've chosen to keep these packages in the same repo because they are so 
closely related.  I'd like to be able to keep this arrangement.

Having said that, while I wouldn't personally object to dropping support 
for building multiple packages from a single branch (since I don't do it 
myself), I wouldn't favor doing so, because existing packages do, and it 
would create more work for the authors to have to split them up.

Maybe it would be reasonable to make a new policy against building 
multiple packages from a single branch, while "grandfathering" in the 
existing packages that do so, if it would solve a problem for ELPA.

Thanks for your work,
Adam