From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
Cc: fgallina@gnu.org, fitzsim@fitzsim.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [elpa] master 872014e: Prevent accidental deletion of .git
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:45:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oaf3m898.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1oivb9bxh4a.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, fgallina@gnu.org, fitzsim@fitzsim.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:38:45 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Right, Fabian installed its code already, but I found out at that point
> >> that the way it works (i.e copying files from emacs.git) is problematic
> >> in various ways: it should instead setup symlinks.
> >
> > Symlinks will cause problems on MS-Windows.
>
> IIUC, this would only be a problem if you want to build a mirror of the
> Gelpa repository on a Windows machine. It wouldn't affect Windows users
> trying to install packages from elpa.gnu.org.
Maybe I've misunderstood, but I thought it will affect everyone who
has a clone of Emacs and a clone of ELPA.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 16:45 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <E1ZvbIq-0004cL-VV@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-11-09 1:58 ` [elpa] master 872014e: Prevent accidental deletion of .git Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 4:49 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2015-11-09 5:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-09 16:38 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-09 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-09 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-18 14:39 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2015-11-18 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-18 16:44 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-18 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 3:08 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2015-11-26 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-26 14:34 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2015-11-26 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-27 6:58 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2015-11-27 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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