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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add posframe.el to elpa
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1er5dU-0008NK-6O@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51ce7e7f-bca2-e410-cffd-f4842d791e44@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit-Claudel on Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:56:46 -0500)

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  > Do we have away to add an external package to elpa? I'm thinking
  > MELPA style, where you just point ELPA to the appropriate
  > repository and it pulls from there.

I see that this would be convenient, but it would be asking for
trouble.  It would mean there is code we distribute as effectively
part of Emacs which we can't edit.  That is unwise.

Thus, my decision is no.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-23  8:57 [RFC] Add posframe.el to elpa tumashu
2018-02-23 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-24  0:22   ` tumashu
2018-02-25 13:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-25 23:45       ` Feng Shu
2018-02-26  3:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-26  7:44           ` tumashu
2018-02-26 10:51             ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-02-27  0:10               ` tumashu
2018-02-27 19:56                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-28  2:21                   ` tumashu
2018-02-28  2:42                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-02-28  5:48                       ` tumashu
2018-02-28  2:43                     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-28  5:42                       ` tumashu
2018-02-28 14:56                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-02-28 15:03                         ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-28 17:35                         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-02-28 17:59                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-01  0:28                             ` tumashu
2018-03-01 16:00                             ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-01 16:20                               ` Clément Pit-Claudel

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