From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: GNU Hyperbole 6.0 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:56:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87poqeihyt.fsf@mail.contactor.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468767359 18195 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2016 14:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:55:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 17 16:55:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bOnTs-0000q7-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:55:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOnTm-0006SE-GQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOnTE-0006Qt-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOnT9-0007lO-MX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOnT9-0007lK-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:54:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bOnSz-0000AG-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:54:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.156.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:54:49 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:54:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ZDAqegJnlJ6ctXFbtPF+Zd+VfQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:205775 Archived-At: > XEmacs separated out a lot of packages from its core but then offered > a sumo tarball with everything included as one option. The fact the ELPA likes the Elisp files to all be at top-level doesn't mean we couldn't have a sumo-like thingy on top. Actually "git pull .../elpa.git; make externals; make" followed by adding the relevant dir to package-directory-list gives you already something very similar. > So if users like integration and it reduces author complexity, that is > one reason to favor it. Internally, things can still be modular and > then programmers can utilize the modules as they like. Exactly. Stefan