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: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:07:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83im94b17m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a6ugnopl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28527"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 21:21:10 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 1kouLF-0007Hd-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:21:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52450 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kouLD-0007Iu-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kou8e-0002NM-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kou8d-0004Li-AN; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3132 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kou8c-0007Uw-FD; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:08:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86a6ugnopl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:59:34 -0800) 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:260834 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:59:34 -0800 > > I'd like to close https://debbugs.gnu.org/39553 . > > One way to resolve it is to restore the old emacs core ada-mode, but in > lisp/obsolete, and with comments indicatiung that it is unmaintained and > superceded by the ELPA package. > > Another way to resolve it is to accept the status quo. > > Another way is to include ada-mode in the distribution tarball, but I > believe the infrastructure for that is not yet implemented. In > addition, since ELPA ada-mode requires Ada code compilation, it is not a > direct replacement for the elisp-only old core ada-mode. > > This would establish a precedent/policy for other packages that move to > ELPA but prefer not to keep a copy in core. > > Personally, I prefer the status quo, but I'm ok with putting the old > code in lisp/obsolete. > > Eli, Lars; I'd like an official ruling on this. I think having it in lisp/obsolete would be a good compromise, until we figure out how to bundle ELPA packages with a release tarball.