Re: Stability of core packages

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,  joaotavora@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:26:57 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > That core packages will be only in elpa.git, not in emacs.git.  Then
> > we'd "bundle" them with Emacs when preparing the release tarballs.
> >
> > I believe this is a long-term plan wrt core packages.  It was even
> > discussed a couple of times here.
> 
> For people building Emacs from source, would this mean that they
> would have to manually install core packages?

No.  We'd need to change either the build process or the structure of
emacs.git (and consequently what happens when you say "git pull") so
that manual installation will not be required.

This was all discussed in the past, and this aspect was mentioned as
one of the issues that would have to be solved.

> Also, this sounds like it would make it impossible for package.el to
> be distributed on ELPA, as proposed in another thread.

It's possible, yes.  But no one has yet got this far into designing
such a system as to figure all that out.  So other alternatives could
be workable.