From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:44:40 +0300 Message-ID: <838uotty7b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mzqszid.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <83vbrytft7.fsf@gnu.org> <87r42m6pwh.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <83ha3it67o.fsf@gnu.org> <83bntqt4i9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403145919 29336 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2014 02:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mlang@delysid.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 04:45:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WxSLd-0005OF-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:45:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxSLd-0003pU-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxSLU-0003fD-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxSLP-0007eS-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:45:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:55256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxSLP-0007eK-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7E00H009M2YV00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:41:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7E009SSA4HCJ80@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:41:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172528 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: mlang@delysid.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:36:50 -0400 > > > Thank you, but having a way to checkout _all_ of the external packages > > without a way to do that only for one or a few is a limitation. > > Besides, you assume that someone can run "make" in the same session > > where she runs git and Emacs, which is entirely non-trivial on > > Windows. > > I have no access, no experience, no desire of access nor desire of > experience on Windows. You never know where life will take you. > So until someone else invests time on this front, it might suck, > indeed. I just did, and wrote that in README. The point is that having just a Make rule for something like checking out a subtree is not the best way of exposing the knowledge to users.