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 policy Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:01:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9ktlj2i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr> <87fv0labbf.fsf@web.de> <87y4eda0kl.fsf@petton.fr> <22074.42230.156669.584780@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <87ziyoxvdp.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83k2psnzyh.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvuorz7n.fsf@gmail.com> <8337wfon3f.fsf@gnu.org> <56401834.8080402@yandex.ru> <83ziynma4s.fsf@gnu.org> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5642383F.2040907@yandex.ru> <87pozhsnsv.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <56424C25.2040107@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447185751 7182 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 20:02:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aaronecay@gmail.com, Stromeko@nexgo.de, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, deng@randomsample.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 21:02:17 2015 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 1ZwF7Q-0003Ah-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:02:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwF7Q-0004Xl-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwF7A-0004XT-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwF77-0000fj-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:51152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwF77-0000fL-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXM00J007LRFJ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:01:55 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXM00JEX7N6CH20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:01:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <56424C25.2040107@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:193953 Archived-At: > Cc: Stephen Leake , > Eli Zaretskii , aaronecay@gmail.com, Stromeko@nexgo.de, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:57:25 +0200 > > On 11/10/2015 08:37 PM, David Engster wrote: > > >> I can cut out xref.el's dependency on CEDET easily enough. > > > > Which illustrates nicely the downside of moving packages to ELPA. > > Nope. It will be beneficial to the code in Emacs, because xref is > currently depending on a minor feature of CEDET (the > semantic-symref-tool infrastructure), which could use a rewrite, to be > available for a more general usage. I think a point we should take from this is that the prerequisites (in this case, the said rewrite) should be in place _before_ we seriously consider such moves (pun intended ;-).