From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:06:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180819204918.GA3934@ACM> <1534753450.61885.1479668936.0BCA49E2@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534773936 6312 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2018 14:05:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:05:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , jostein@kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jostein =?windows-1252?Q?Kj=F8nigsen?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 16:05:31 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frkoF-0001WW-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:05:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frkqL-0001tT-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40661) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frkpj-0001tA-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frkpf-0004vB-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:40240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frkpf-0004ur-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w7KE6rDm001546; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 77886AE243; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:06:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1534753450.61885.1479668936.0BCA49E2@webmail.messagingengine.com> ("Jostein =?windows-1252?Q?Kj=F8nigsen=22's?= message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:24:10 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6355=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6355> : inlines <6821> : streams <1796046> : uri <2692410> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228722 Archived-At: >>>> I just tested the construction of a GNU ELPA package for CC- >>>> mode using>>> the :core thingy of elpa.git and everything looks good. >>> Who's going to be testing this? I've a slight suspicion that >>> sometimes>> people add things to CC Mode that depend on things in master. >>> That would>> be subotimal for ELPA. >> This has not proved to be a problem for other packages we handle this> way >> (e.g. soap-client, python.el, ...). >> One of the reasons is that it's so cheap&quick to release a new >> version> that such problems are trivial to solve if/when they show up. > > cc-mode is not only used inside core Emacs, but also by third party > developers. [...] I'm not suggesting to remove CC-mode from Emacs. Only to *additionally* distribute it via GNU ELPA. Stefan