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: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:13:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87ilkelc10.fsf@posteo.net> <878rl6syg8.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdjqcu0.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdivc3f.fsf@posteo.net> <874jvqv2u3.fsf@posteo.net> <875yg6qtbl.fsf@posteo.net> <83leoubj9p.fsf@gnu.org> <87edumco81.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="30834"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 05 04:14:11 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 1or9dJ-0007jz-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2022 04:14:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1or9cc-0007Gk-LN; Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:13:26 -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 1or9cb-0007Gd-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:13:25 -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 1or9cb-0004WZ-K7; Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:13:25 -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=1S4ObSFug9YCayt/dnH7ksd/7dCvupwIjmknC/Jj9tM=; b=Eh0/3HAohC+f Dpvg+qX7aueypLBlO10K3cpPa+mW/UlnxkX1qYcU0Gk7Cir8m5g1h/OoQxnDaTKquKC9yrZ0dJd9D sjBf10t4SLRadykjp0pgXugodpwDH/QvqXu7vBu0hGfgPNd6ha4Yc6QVbnSRiH+a151nDOaxWyq8P 5RLM+9XUwAcNeFzEiOoyKM1ueJJOAFHm/0J4U4cc3/O873uS9h7Opt39Vz+8KLtgybP2NofGqvxns g4PK/lFcCN6XAaJbgtDlxX1PVrvqntj+/fDJIvDZFcrJP+TGPRUXEHH76O/HRsFLjEka2E3Pt60ec S4es4SiczM2UASxCrhJzOQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1or9ca-0006wk-PL; Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:13:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:10:56 -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:299167 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. ]]] > > We should not arbitrarily limit what VCS the remote repo can use, > > given that we already have the facilities (in VC itself) to easily > > avoid such limits. > Many modern VCS can clone locally a repository using the format of > another VCS. It is fine to use that capability in cases where it is applicable to implement the flexibility we should have. -- 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)