From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] master 872014e: Prevent accidental deletion of .git Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:45:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83oaf3m898.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151109013124.17711.29422@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83y4e7ma0n.fsf@gnu.org> <1oivb9bxh4a.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447087617 16759 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2015 16:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 16:46:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fgallina@gnu.org, fitzsim@fitzsim.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 17:46:41 2015 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 1ZvpaV-0007l8-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:46:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpaU-0000DI-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50261) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpZh-0007on-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpZd-0001nH-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:42671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpZd-0001n3-It; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:45:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXK00J003HWEK00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:45:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXK0095P3V0R8A0@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:45:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <1oivb9bxh4a.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:193730 Archived-At: > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: Stefan Monnier , fgallina@gnu.org, fitzsim@fitzsim.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:38:45 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.