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: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:13:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83bntqt4i9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mzqszid.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <83vbrytft7.fsf@gnu.org> <87r42m6pwh.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <83ha3it67o.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403118859 5058 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2014 19:14:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:14:19 +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 Wed Jun 18 21:14:11 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 1WxLJD-00062w-7s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:14:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxLJC-0007S7-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxLJ4-0007MJ-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxLIz-0004Ij-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxLIz-0004I4-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7D00200P6XK400@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:13:56 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7D002MHPF71H80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:13:56 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:172519 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Mario Lang , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:58:53 -0400 > > > Why did I need to read the Lisp source to figure out how to checkout > > a single package from externals? > > I wouldn't know. I made it as simple as I could, because I don't have > much time to devote to it and nobody else seemed interested in spending > time on it, whereas I think GNU ELPA is very important for Emacs. 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.