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: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160916203414.25203.87032@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20160916203416.8DF2F220166@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474239567 1395 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2016 22:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:59:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 00:59:23 2016 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 1bll3O-0007su-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:59:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bll3L-0003IZ-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bll3E-0003II-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bll3A-0007F7-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:40892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bll3A-0007Ep-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:04 -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 u8IMx1Mt030266; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D25D8AE0F7; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:45:43 -0700") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5801=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5801> : inlines <5239> : streams <1702794> : uri <2291498> 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:207591 Archived-At: SM> Exactly. So if you have a package both in emacs.git and elpa.git, you're SM> going to have to choose which of those two is the "upstream" and then be SM> extra careful to tell people to only ever make changes on that side, which SM> I think will prove inconvenient. > Maybe, but is it more inconvenient than the alternatives? I'm not sure what > the competing proposals are, exactly, at this point. The competing proposal is to have a checkout of elpa.git within/alongside that of emacs.git. Stefan