From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving GNU ELPA Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:04:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r2xg2wra.fsf@bernoul.li> <87pod02swk.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500325508 19006 195.159.176.226 (17 Jul 2017 21:05:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 23:04:59 2017 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 1dXDCH-0004GB-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:04:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXDCM-0001Hu-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXDBp-0001Hn-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXDBo-0006Rw-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXDBX-0006CY-A0; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dXDBW-000844-U3; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:04:06 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:26:10 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:216801 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > > I was somehow under the impression that "subtree" packages were > > preferred, and "external" packages only recommended for big packages > > and maintainers who refused to use the subtree approach. > It's up to the package's maintainer to decide. People have presented complicated workflows, saying those are required to install any patch in ELPA, and that this makes using ELPA a pain. Those did seem so complicated that it would be a pain in the neck to do this. Are those complicated workflows for "subtree" packages only? Does using an "external" package avoid the problem? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.