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: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:25:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83iljyavgz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <87edv96q4j.fsf@posteo.net> <83tu455a5s.fsf@gnu.org> <87a65v2ytp.fsf@posteo.net> <834jw33rmx.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmer0xtz.fsf@posteo.net> <83wn8z2aze.fsf@gnu.org> <878rle1i0k.fsf@posteo.net> <87ilkelc10.fsf@posteo.net> <878rl6syg8.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdjqcu0.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdivc3f.fsf@posteo.net> <874jvqv2u3.fsf@posteo.net> <875yg6qtbl.fsf@posteo.net> <83leoubj9p.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6633"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 02 04:26:57 2022 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 1oq4P3-0001Y8-L2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:26:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oq4O2-0004kq-Jo; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oq4O1-0004kZ-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oq4Nw-0008Ox-RN; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:25:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=8BO8L0KEYPlTlvinnS5Sgh0S6I4kTOQ5k/3cu92acUE=; b=frDbj1YKR4kq bv1Db/COwp3ioZwgVXM/m7kBlWemgveOf+ID5ZVvoIJEfRoKyHKm48bfdUlKwl2lowu7ubscBTsWO FzLHTiIfGIGDp1aHVWaU2+Vq7ubbxv2Qs3PwW7+8SkS1hsC68VOsQeYYLSJyQ3pQV6mKn/EXpiZS2 VFjBGeaObBWbWDRu7yAVSiEpXh/FzO/9++bne++3RNaVvZgvsp/xmomsZrzT+9EaAjhZxoQ9alzK8 0uNZpszT2k5vKIEGIXLZXhUqfC2K6c3I+HPWoOkh480Kg8OwUgG7RhVHueeNtva0qWrALY+yrwgWI 2CsaV/vn4qhIZ6m6qo5I+Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oq4Nr-0000XI-MR; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:25:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 1 Nov 2022 20:26:11 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298989 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 20:26:11 +0100 > Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > Are there any GNU packages for Emacs that still use CVS? If > > > yes, why don't they use Git? > > > > Again, not relevant. package-vc should support all the VCS backends > > that VC supports, for as long as Emacs supports that VCS in general. > > Of course it is relevant. AFAIU, Stefan M argued that it's *not very > important*, not that it shouldn't be supported at all. That's not what he said. Anyway, my point is that our current policy is to try to support all the VCSes in VC at the same level. We don't always succeed, for various reasons, but we don't consider it "counter-productive" nor "waste of effort" to do so. So "importance" is not a factor here.