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: Adding packages to ELPA Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:21:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83a95uz2is.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87sijqxzr2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <877g11c8wh.fsf@gmx.us> <83fvfo15z7.fsf@gnu.org> <8361gj20h7.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjdvzmd5.fsf@gnu.org> <85iokiffiq.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411230116 18920 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2014 16:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:21:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 18:21:47 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 1XVNPv-0007IK-2V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:21:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNPu-00079v-Ma for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNPo-00079j-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNPj-0000t1-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:45450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNPi-0000s6-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NC700G00JG93O00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:21:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NC700GD6K3R3240@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:21:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85iokiffiq.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:174585 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:00:45 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Stefan Monnier > >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:44:35 -0400 > >> > >> - GNU ELPA packages can be released on their own schedule. > > > > Same is true if they are in the Emacs repository. > > I have been releasing bug fix versions of Ada mode 5.x once per month > for a while now; they are immediately available to ELPA package users of > any Emacs version. > > Emacs releases are once every 2 years at best. > > This is obvious, so I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to > say. Perhaps we have different definitions of "release"? What I meant is no one said you need to wait for an Emacs release to release a package. The Emacs repository is a public one, like the ELPA repository. So I don't see a difference, really.