From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA vs ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu releases Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:53:23 -0500 Message-ID: <85ha2d9ikc.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405803228 30433 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2014 20:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:53:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 22:53:43 2014 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 1X8bdX-0007yK-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:53:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8bdW-0007G0-KC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8bdP-0007Ch-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8bdK-0007tA-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.232]:45469 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8bdK-0007st-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:51249] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 54/26-28001-6CADAC35; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:53:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.142:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=LfKy61vi c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=9XSUBuVRJI8A:10 a=TvQquL3kYKUA:10 a=Fag_Tk2F2PsA:10 a=o_R75loqY_IA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=bAeWvtD6aIgO5EYoNkwA:9 a=aSGvOcXLKsgA:10 a=EfVcKrcOF6wA:10 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider X-Received-From: 107.14.73.232 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:173062 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> What is the policy for packages which are now part of ELPA, but which >> have directories under ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu where tar releases used to >> be posted? > > So far, there's only AUCTeX in this situation, IIUC, and the two > distribution co-exist (i.e. the ftp site is the official AUCTeX > release, where the GNU ELPA site is just a packaging of that release). ada-mode is also in this situation; http://stephe-leake.org/emacs/ada-mode/emacs-ada-mode.html is the official release, and GNU ELPA is just a packaging of that release. -- -- Stephe