From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:11:54 -0500 Message-ID: <86bmegqfd1.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <87lgdpphmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87vacqcy89.fsf@gnu.org> <877ep5euh7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524093006 852 195.159.176.226 (18 Apr 2018 23:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:10:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 01:10:02 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f8wDC-00007P-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 01:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8wFJ-0008N4-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8wFC-0008Mg-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8wF8-0000dD-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp105.iad3b.emailsrvr.com ([146.20.161.105]:45273) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8wF8-0000Z4-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp6.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp6.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 31F422006A for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:11:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: by smtp6.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: board-president-AT-tomahawk-creek-hoa.com) with ESMTPSA id F1FBB20056 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:11:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: from Takver4 (76-218-37-33.lightspeed.kscymo.sbcglobal.net [76.218.37.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:25 (trex/5.7.12); Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:11:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877ep5euh7.fsf@gnu.org> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:13:56 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 146.20.161.105 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224720 Archived-At: Roland Winkler writes: > On Tue, Apr 17 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> FWIW, currently GNU ELPA supports this in the following way: a new GNU >> ELPA package is only created once the "Version:" of a package is >> bumped. So you can add experimental code to elpa.git's master branch >> without worrying about its effect on the distributed package and when >> that code is ready you can just bump the "Version:" header to cause a >> new release. > > It would be nice to be able to go beyond that. I am grateful if > adventurous users are willing to test the experimental code. So it > would be nice if there was infrastructure that somehow allowed these > users to subscribe to the experimental code, similar to how the > development of core emacs benefits from users using the master branch. +1 I have an experimental version of ada-mode I'd like users to try. -- -- Stephe