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: [SPAM UNSURE] Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:34:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83czxr1zl3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86eeifawx8.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87czxygdl9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86tur88izp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <831rec5apu.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1magg4x.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86sg6o6c43.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83o8hb21wk.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 16:36:44 2021 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 1l4QOZ-0007Fy-NL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:36:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46212 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4QOY-0003Pr-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4QMi-00022F-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4QMb-0006R7-8b; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:34:42 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4561 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4QMZ-0006GC-Sp; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:34:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:25:20 -0500) 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:263462 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:25:20 -0500 > > >> I think we'll only want to bundle a few specific packages, and I think > >> it might be simpler to keep a copy of those specific packages in > >> emacs.git > > Does this mean you are backing up from the consensus of using > > submodules? > > I don't think it does, no. I guess I'm confused. > For example, ada-mode would be kept inside emacs.git in the branch > `elpa/ada-mode`, and then you could do > > git submodule add -b elpa/ada-mode .../emacs.git where/I/want/to/put/it AFAIU, "add -b" names a branch in the repository _from_which_ we add (i.e. the upstream), which in this case is elpa.git. So I don't think I understand how your previous sentence: ada-mode would be kept inside emacs.git in the branch `elpa/ada-mode` can be reconciled with the Git command you show. What did I miss? In any case, if elpa/ada-mode is a branch within emacs.git, then how can we build some branch of Emacs in a way that includes ada-mode, or produce a tarball from that Emacs branch? For example, emacs-NN release branch will be different from the elpa/ada-mode branch, and we can never have them together unless we merge them in Git, which is probably not what we want?