Re: Emacs release and bundling GNU Elpa

[phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> At step 3, we'd have the following novelties:
> - the end user has to checkout both emacs.git and elpa.git before she
>   can build Emacs (I suspect there will be some resistance, here).
> - packages in emacs/lisp can start to depend on packages from elpa.git.
> - we could even include preload some elpa.git packages (i.e. from loadup.el).
>
> I'm not exactly sure we'll ever get to step 3.


Would it not be possible to put elpa.get into emacs.git as some kind of
subtree?

The reason I ask, is that I try to keep Emacs running somewhere close to
trunk for my daily emacs, but I find that I get mysterious errors in
unrelated packages. These are normally solved by deleting my
.emacs.d/elpa directory and starting from fresh (my config, like many I
am sure, makes this easy).

It would be nice if running make clean on emacs.git checkout would also
do a make clean on its related elpa.git.

Just a thought.

Phil