From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The MH-E repository Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 22:00:34 +0200 Message-ID: <873bs3kvx9.fsf@marant.org> References: <25625.1117492799@olgas.newt.com> <1117523297.429c0d614d0e3@imp4-q.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117569629 29255 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2005 20:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 22:00:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdCtc-0002cU-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 21:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdCym-0000rO-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DdCyR-0000pQ-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DdCyN-0000mX-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdCyN-0000lN-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.228.0.176] (helo=postfix4-2.free.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DdCwV-0000QI-Si; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from amboise (mol92-4-82-227-97-206.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.97.206]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26D631DA4B; Tue, 31 May 2005 22:00:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by amboise (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D557234E83; Tue, 31 May 2005 22:00:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 31 May 2005 13:47:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37965 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37965 Richard Stallman writes: > The practice of parts of Emacs in places other than the Emacs > repository is quite harmful to Emacs maintenance. It regularly leads > to difficulties getting the latest code into Emacs, and even to > unintended forks. To think of this as a way to serve Emacs users > is taking a short-term view. > > I would rather see more Lisp package maintainers keep their master > sources inside the Emacs repository, so as to reduce the potential > for these problems. I understand your points but there are many risks to make them too strongly bound to the Emacs CVS version along with its Lisp changes, which could make them incompatible with previous Emacs releases. Currently, packages maintained outside of the Emacs CVS are meant to work on the stable Emacs release and they usually do. BTW, I'd like to see them more often updated for the stable Emacs release, because it's not really acceptable for users to wait for the next stable release to see their bugs fixed (last real update was in 2003). --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant