From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:28:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87v8zbp5l7.fsf@posteo.net> <87ee5ymhsz.fsf@posteo.net> <87r19xktnz.fsf@posteo.net> <87bl0ziujk.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26038"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 30 05:31:52 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 1n2n6U-0006cH-UF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:31:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58848 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2n6T-0005ef-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2n3K-0002lr-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=60792 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2n3K-0003gO-DP; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:28:34 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=hEj4q7reklmUjoSND2aAAGYiY+mZIPDltWJpIuU434g=; b=r03aofYRsLvr BAV9Idmv9ZS8RrygiN/WMjJdNy7Y/THKnyxd/shxwOasU2tFig88Z9kyzQmR3vcc16DQbQfhWxDpb 0gK6grI63G7ReCHWOkaylDWrLz/BiSd60LAVThNFrPwKWKS1kvyZV3GlDqQKxpu9Tsw0tlEIJX5Si qrhtJ1QRihy/bEXiLmT3vl5k2gaLUA0/VlR0LacWy15n31lq1WyTZHP+pugFicBg9ju9drjXyO0Uc m0oquRaDtmiA5NeSds5LPuTbZvFGM6X3II65rlENPyQ+bVylCP7p2j34aNljMxkGgXOqmBUWlWmH9 lyrH+CWh/k4ot2zMUa3zZQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2n3K-0004mS-HM; Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:28:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bl0ziujk.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:18:07 +0000) 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:283612 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. ]]] > Ok, I see. No, there would certainly not be a default inclination > towards GitHub. Instead my idea was that a package might specify where > to find its repository, and if you enter a package name that has a > header like this: > ;; VC: https://vcs.host/path/to/repo.git > package-fetch would use this. That's fine -- but note that the packages in NonGNU ELPA should list NonGNU ELPA as the repo. They shouldn't refer people to GitHub. In some cases, the NonGNU ELPA version might contain some of our own patches. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)