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: "Package from Source" Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220214140020.04438C00891@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <871qris3xb.fsf@gnus.org> <877d1aqoc1.fsf@posteo.net> <87edvhqdrb.fsf@gnus.org> <871qrh2hh6.fsf@posteo.net> <87mta5oyec.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfjx10x1.fsf@posteo.net> <875ygsp0ng.fsf@gnus.org> <87h70c9bu4.fsf@posteo.net> <874jw73cjy.fsf@posteo.net> <877d0z5216.fsf@posteo.net> <874jw05mh1.fsf@posteo.net> <83h700yslc.fsf@gnu.org> <87k04sn7xj.fsf@posteo.net> <87r0yx2nm7.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="27729"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 21:25:31 2022 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 1onm1q-0006w4-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:25:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlur-0007fT-8I; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlun-0007eZ-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlum-00020y-L9; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:12 -0400 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=zbO9VQC7nqNLIKOv3hCHI1s4itE4U3uYSVHeFantNAg=; b=GEAQuHyn+KIZ JpfvHB+wB4CoNeHF1HQ9mPrQIFDZmrd7WAtBbkXsJwBqeOsQMjOlIZYJuc4dJ6QqHsFuHMB7lXSRR X6P+NCgz551dE71smYgWUAGaRYoMWcSHEKxddxOozJ0lk/qRH0cna8g2kJuNsTivoXuVnSYl7vA2l C6IC/bAq1/AenBBFZCkFXdV0T1xFX5UMiVqKQ2o8Cv4G8ocJV/kpe6omOduoWmUT8zVJF9rvjTNh5 YWE6ecYSAN+xc9GbbV4P2lUEsQWxHCUmADeaELzO7mv3NnvvFHlx1C+VqBcmbE/5NAGtfMglW1FHB 7V7uAypfNWIScHOHeok8ow==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlum-0005cD-CI; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r0yx2nm7.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:27:28 +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: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298582 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. ]]] > > In other words, there should be a command to check out the current version > > sources, and a command to check out the development version sources. > > Or maybe one command that can do either of those two. > I can imagine that both are possible with a single command, that would > take a prefix argument when invoked interactively. A prefix argument would work. I tend to think that this difference is important enough that it is better to have two different command names. Another idea would > be to use a user option. I think we should encourage people to make this choice on a package-by-package basis. A user option would push users to handle all packages the same way. -- 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)