From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:21:56 +0000 Message-ID: <87bl13kqob.fsf@posteo.net> References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k6wsajh.fsf@posteo.net> <87o8536fry.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32456"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 26 22:23:05 2021 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 1n1ayu-0008Ef-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:23:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46646 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1ayt-0003n1-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 16:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1ay3-00037C-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 16:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:44809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1axs-0006FI-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 16:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16DFB240101 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:21:57 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1640553718; bh=csuMoEPn+BOav/NvawdQsUIOysOnhzNBF+NSiaTPvuM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Autocrypt:Date:From; b=akJ5ZO6sIjVcprOVfulnfLRMbSVD3suAioewl2SYVRRZn/WO6CjovJhBrpF9vfi8G ovMrytoDLEnaJtIvb+zoFc75XUlwaspBFAgzgoXp6f33il2H3/PNuvfB4gWNKh5qox gVjZb4NFFDU+91hYxdtzqChmvwX21oEHy7w9jbOMVV6pWXCqTFE7z4LTIBQrEmTOF1 lygOeOh+L24RVNq1v+qzBHSfDstS/wGiEUYcCFL/28eNxQU5N41TB0CTgIQYmmt424 EdA3+2+YSTEr3XlFEujixU/1omgd1O+liI8KHGKkSsBYY+Wlc6nUoQ2LW0r+XqkiAO J/6qqHILBfbDw== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4JMYdw74r1z6tmG; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:21:56 +0100 (CET) Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; prefer-encrypt=nopreference; keydata= mDMEYHHqUhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAp3GdmYJ6tm5McweY6dEvIYIiry+Oz9rU4MH6NHWK0Ee0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiQBBMWCAA4FiEEDM2H44ZoPt9Ms0eHtVrAHPRh1FwFAmBx6lICGwMFCwkIBwIGFQoJ CAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQtVrAHPRh1FyTkgEAjlbGPxFchvMbxzAES3r8QLuZgCxeAXunM9gh io0ePtUBALVhh9G6wIoZhl0gUCbQpoN/UJHI08Gm1qDob5zDxnIHuDgEYHHqUhIKKwYBBAGXVQEF AQEHQNcRB+MUimTMqoxxMMUERpOR+Q4b1KgncDZkhrO2ql1tAwEIB4h4BBgWCAAgFiEEDM2H44Zo Pt9Ms0eHtVrAHPRh1FwFAmBx6lICGwwACgkQtVrAHPRh1Fw1JwD/Qo7kvtib8jy7puyWrSv0MeTS g8qIxgoRWJE/KKdkCLEA/jb9b9/g8nnX+UcwHf/4VfKsjExlnND3FrBviXUW6NcB In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:55:41 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SPF_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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: , 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:283359 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > >> The effort spent on it should have both improved existing package.el > > >> and also add straight.el like functionality to it. Whether it is all > > >> under feature 'package or multiple features. > > This discussion is about "straight.el-like functionality". > Would someone please describe that functionality? straight.el is an alternative package manager that for the purposes of this thread clones a Git repository directly instead of fetching the package contents from a package archive like ELPA. I believe it does a bit more along the lines of functional package managers like Nix and Guix, but I haven't used it myself to be able to say what difference it makes. -- Philip Kaludercic