From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch vs. overwrite in bzr Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:37 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87k42cwys8.fsf@gnu.org> <87limhuldm.fsf@gnu.org> <871uo7g4j6.fsf@gnu.org> <87iphjhbm8.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87398lgrat.fsf_-_@niu.edu> <871uo5c7r0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87pqbpj5j3.fsf@altern.org> <87aa2szgig.fsf@gnu.org> <87ehs4yrhz.fsf@gnu.org> <83k41vctyg.fsf@gnu.org> <83aa2rcnww.fsf@gnu.org> <8362dedgcb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333639515 2251 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 15:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:25:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 17:25:13 2012 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 1SFoYf-0001Ma-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:25:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFoYd-0002jB-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFoYW-0002hT-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFoYQ-0000uy-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFoYP-0000uq-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFoYK-00018W-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAD1BMVEWLi4jGxsVMS09zcW8c GyDSewagAAACXUlEQVQ4jVWTi5HjIBBEASkAGhQAAgLg4wAsRP4xXQ/Sbt2qXMaex/xbKnUNKCg+ XZ6WnkMFFfmkXsRCuskVBavCNlPMRJNnb/xBuyVIbeYhTgSf9ALF6OkzZ4xDwH3ImSQaQcszx8dj CBipPCAT5EinPIdNPFJ5QvE/L9OLmSCe/QWN9+OQ9KNZfuf2hupyX8BnRvTM0sObYwjIkiMhxdnG vbEPySGPxJhftcXcY3rAsjNMZz8V26enthW1wGCkfHe6fu1mUmxJ6deDpY7GG3dRmqE6HaDGApF9 sqHA+ae+FQHxSc14czIIrAxfACucvY08ecZU4KVzAcHMqQwBZ5NGsb+gqzkWYI4ygscvKPmrzN25 2FA7W9t+QQsEcxWVg6n+Tb4U8ANi2AODrwbX+M1Yk7njeQz8ActOn+qq3p5F/Q9mDFYVp8RFIj5A dhyT/RRT/oK1yaD4MVLXA3YmbgJYZDoNhcJZlQekTlB6NKO7ZRukdr8QvK6Ag7XaBokyX3C5r4F3 MP5EkPhZdrCf9kJO8BtKL1CF+hWg9uouuAFbaTSwaesq3xpl127CDhiN1DSoSIJR0Q84N+yNqJGN PS01T8FV6APeJnciAhX75d2MKlJS/TMo/9jn6PnrKHvDVssugAPhpJSxUzQr0qDaT4/vabUHFSur w9w8QYunQ7w8DHQl8g25W/Fo1aMRsjf4CtZthqOk2vwCbBAJASzMz9NNDpW5bqs/2tG8ACb3nh9w 1AkPDhhGQD2uY4Elg6Uey1eWefPNNatXBjcVH/yICa9B8cJ6EfjuJyNNvuAfSiad2msWGukAAAAA SUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Listen, Whitey! The Sounds Of Black Power 1967-1974_: "Eldridge Cleaver - Tim Leary" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zix1ZWjcyvA6vkssaGxmA116C/M= 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149404 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > That amounts to using the Emacs repository is the canonical repository > for Gnus, ERC, CEDET, MH-E, Org, ... > But they don't want to do that, often for good reasons (legal, > practical, ...). I would guess that the main practical reason for having the external repositories is the long feature freeze that happens in Emacs development. If Emacs shifted to a "continuous development" model (with branches being forked off for stabilisation now and then), that might change ... stuff. That might not be practical, though, as previously pointed out. Virtually all the developers would "live" in the trunk version of Emacs, so the forked-off stable version would get less love and testing. I don't know. Would it be worth trying to shifting to that model after Emacs 24.1? Preferably with more frequent releases, too. :-) The other practical consideration, though, is that several (some? all?) of the packages mentioned also contains code not relevant for the current Emacs -- compatibility stuff, XEmacs stuff, etc. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/