From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Tom Tromey'" <tromey@redhat.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: ELPA security
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:57:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34F1279605B9404B9406960CDCF554FC@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehi6j943.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
> Ted> add DVCS support to package.el, supporting Git and
> Ted> Bazaar, with the notion of "pull packages from repo X
> Ted> at tag/commit Y" in addition to the current "pull packages
> Ted> from URLs". The VC package has to be involved
> Ted> here, instead of writing custom code.
>
> What is the reason for this?
>
> FWIW, I considered and rejected this approach when writing package.el.
> My reason was that I wanted packaging not to require any
> external tools, so it would be available to all Emacs users.
> Also, KISS.
>
> Mixing in VC seems to add a lot of potential failure modes.
+1
If Emacs Dev really wants to do this, why not separate it from package.el and
make its use optional?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-31 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-09 14:41 ELPA security George Kadianakis
2012-12-09 21:00 ` Nic Ferrier
2012-12-21 14:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-21 22:12 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-22 5:07 ` Bastien
2012-12-22 6:17 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-22 12:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-22 13:03 ` Bastien
2012-12-22 13:24 ` Bastien
2012-12-22 19:37 ` package.el + DVCS for security and convenience (was: ELPA security) Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-24 12:53 ` package.el + DVCS for security and convenience Nic Ferrier
2012-12-24 12:55 ` Bastien
2012-12-24 13:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-24 13:39 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-24 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24 17:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-25 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-26 14:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-27 3:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27 8:56 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 11:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 12:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-31 13:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 16:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-31 21:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-29 6:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-31 11:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-03 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-04 16:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-04 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-04 19:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-05 3:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-06 19:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 2:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-07 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 1:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 15:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 17:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 18:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-09 2:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 2:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 14:05 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-04 22:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 20:06 ` Re:package.el + DVCS for security and convenience (was: ELPA security) Phil Hagelberg
2012-12-31 22:50 ` package.el + DVCS for security and convenience Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-22 16:20 ` ELPA security Stefan Monnier
2012-12-26 17:32 ` Paul Nathan
2012-12-31 11:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 12:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-31 13:39 ` Package signing infrastructure suggestion (was Re: ELPA security) Nic Ferrier
2012-12-31 22:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 23:01 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 19:48 ` ELPA security Tom Tromey
2012-12-31 19:57 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-12-31 22:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 22:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-05 16:46 ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-06 19:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 5:32 ` Paul Nathan
2013-01-07 5:47 ` Jambunathan K
2013-01-07 5:53 ` Paul Nathan
2013-01-07 6:09 ` Jambunathan K
2013-01-07 6:20 ` Paul Nathan
2013-01-07 7:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-07 7:18 ` chad
2013-01-07 14:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 6:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-07 14:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 17:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 23:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-12 18:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 17:59 ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-08 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-16 11:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-16 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 1:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-17 7:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-17 15:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-28 15:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-17 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 7:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-19 5:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-19 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-23 11:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-23 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-28 15:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-28 16:28 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-06-28 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-24 3:44 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-06-28 15:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-28 16:15 ` Daiki Ueno
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