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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: bozhidar@batsov.dev, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1onlvJ-0005jy-BF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn8nrt9q.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:30:41 +0000)

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  > >> We might decide to support their style of release, or decide not to
  > >> include their packages in NonGNU ELPA, or we might come up with
  > >> another solution.  I don't know what's best.  But I'm sure we should
  > >> think about that before we decide.

  > If the only issue a package has is that it is developed using a "rolling
  > release" model, it would be nonsensical for us to not accommodate the
  > request and reject a (perhaps popular) package on that ground.

It may sometimes be good for us to accept such packages and call each
version a "release."  But we have another way to accept them: to
selectively copy some versions and call them "releases", while
omitting other versions.

I don't think either approach is inherently nonsensical.
We should not rule either one out arbitrarily.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-26 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-22 10:31 Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-23  4:47 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2022-10-23  8:43   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24  6:14   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24  6:45     ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-24  8:07       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24 14:06       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 19:18         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 16:00       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 16:39         ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-26 19:18           ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-24 15:58     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 17:27     ` Stephen Leake
2022-10-24 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26  6:32   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 11:57     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 15:27       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:31       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 19:07           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-25 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-26  5:10   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26  6:30     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26  8:05       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26 19:18       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-26  5:58 Payas Relekar
2022-10-26  8:07 ` Bozhidar Batsov

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