From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: decision on moving core packages to ELPA; also move to obsolete? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:33:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83bletahq0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a6ugnopl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83im94b17m.fsf@gnu.org> <834kknatxs.fsf@gnu.org> <83sg86apqb.fsf@gnu.org> <865z52oqfp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86wnxinbnx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83o8iuann7.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7omakyw.fsf@gnu.org> <81776be3-2bfe-2d5c-6aae-6d905426e5cf@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13689"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, daniele@grinta.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 16:46:49 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kpZ0r-0003O0-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpZ0q-0007o1-1f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpYo2-0003JO-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:33:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpYo0-0001LD-UD; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3091 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kpYnz-0001mZ-8L; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:33:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <81776be3-2bfe-2d5c-6aae-6d905426e5cf@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:55:21 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261002 Archived-At: > Cc: daniele@grinta.net, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:55:21 +0200 > > Forgive me if that has already been suggested, but how about either: > > - When making an Emacs X.YZ release, we require that every "external" > package has a tag emacs-xyz in its repository, and we pull in and > package that version. > > - In the very same file in Emacs' tree that the repositories with > external packages will be listed, we also list the corresponding > revisions that will go into the upcoming release. > > The latter is essentially the "git modules" model, which we can also > use. I think, if the above suits us (see my other message in this thread), we should indeed use "git submodule". > One advantage it has is that the package author forgotten to push a > tag for some Emacs release, we're still covered. You mean, advantage compared to using submodules? If so, I don't think I see how submodules are different in this regard.