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: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:17:48 -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="7962"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 04:18:34 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 1oqQkT-0001sv-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:18:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqQjp-0006Wa-03; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:17:53 -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 1oqQjk-0006TD-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:17:49 -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 1oqQjk-0008DD-J3; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:17:48 -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=3E6cXO4BvAJ3KsT3kFnFE1ZEJcWmFA1Pj0aSlBRFBxk=; b=Zv+w0AI4N+mF 8gLewKNJr4KsZXgg5vHGPXrKhaCs/sbARPu84LxI1kMQH9YDICJ19kG0XFcL2ZoBp47qj5/mEYuEk Tim4gNN6m11TEXIxmAFYXV/RS7bauDH1WZo9jMy3HIty2FiKNCU0G5P941lAE9Q0MDN9wIKsn6fK+ RlYDB0T5P8gud+dnpkIFRhbH1OIh9xu7+/2lfDEcdW6hkIv8E8e+5zaG5SiWQ5tGtDghb0zfFzEJm 1oBn7wOCc++HEQtrJRV2r6zek5AvUWxOTBqg2+sKNdTOCtDOCCBp5T/7CQGzza3yc/VU4I0XgE0DZ A/9XCFiY6JR0lDbwGvVq6w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqQjk-0005R0-9n; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:17:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 1 Nov 2022 19:35:19 +0100) 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:299050 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. ]]] > > The GNU Project uses CVS. We need Emacs to continue to support it. > I don't think anyone disagrees with that (though some people might ask > why GNU is still using CVS). Ifa person asked that question as simple curiosity, it might have a simple answer or it might be "historical reasons not worth explaining." Nowever, the words you used suggest that people would be making a demand that the GNU Project change its practices to adopt the practices they prefer. That is not nice. -- 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)