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: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <87edv96q4j.fsf@posteo.net> <83tu455a5s.fsf@gnu.org> <87a65v2ytp.fsf@posteo.net> <834jw33rmx.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmer0xtz.fsf@posteo.net> <83wn8z2aze.fsf@gnu.org> <878rle1i0k.fsf@posteo.net> <87ilkelc10.fsf@posteo.net> <878rl6syg8.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdjqcu0.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdivc3f.fsf@posteo.net> <874jvqv2u3.fsf@posteo.net> <875yg6qtbl.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="29894"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 01 18:09:12 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 1opulD-0007YR-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:09:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opuPV-000098-M7; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:45 -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 1opuPU-00008x-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:44 -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 1opuPU-0000XO-9E; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:44 -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=VKFjjrzLR+Jlqdg3Sbq6+Mb96so+vGl+xFGQBn5a2co=; b=R2Zbjh66YL7t NksDk5esOrUpvMd2nZgO//zg4fcrCcO2/04TzDTjHWpowvfkZyF402xDYrcXb/oIz6SK/+sTbTPs/ HQeXNIY8d6UdUVZD8+qj1ghstfgOI8Ev3bpRAvXdPjETr+41uocY/eGGciJgSIuqqVw8pVH+bPxjC wLuio0puQ5djfB2EojUFP5pa/2MQFoXQRYc+rNPaUWsMtROlHg3QGY/nRhG+qstkDXTjbLterkd3/ oyFA0vFh5721Bn41/nQUb0aW4dnCqgyK8vx3dt3/IzQAHUOBC9trujd9DOB6+QvjIFuqsslaw5zcN sR4e7B9OvIu6+yL7Pff5Mg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opuPS-0000KE-Ae; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:40:53 -0400) 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:298941 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. ]]] > To be honest, at this point I consider non-Git VCS a bit like XEmacs: > they sure have some really interesting technical characteristics yet > trying to support them is counter-productive. The GNU Project uses CVS. We need Emacs to continue to support it. -- 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)