From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:49:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87bmzg2j6t.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <20160916203414.25203.87032@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20160916203416.8DF2F220166@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87vaxsjmvu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <878tunj2wr.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474549675 27440 195.159.176.226 (22 Sep 2016 13:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:07:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 22 15:07:48 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bn3j0-0005XG-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:07:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bn3iz-0008Et-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bn3RX-0007xu-TD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bn3RU-0004LZ-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:49168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bn3RU-0004LA-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:49:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=aoDvngHoniXkwRKvknWliEfckkXVSLckEngdEMRK3Ec=; b=xKmzCEEkgju1f22tGxBa6/rKjt GTj5ux/aarjxa4Hq8jq80CfKgIrf/Jf/mQXJA3nyiZE5quC4zb50UkWakISx2lv0YeMwyA2ZiFa+m 8essDkSyXOVTVhvSn/pYqJNeW1lYbeGMm+V4FJBAUumI52dL0Ar92MdJ5mpXWQ9YgosmXWibp7T3c awGjBXQVpdk8z8w2zjGaBuwOwKolfFEbLDm5IJOjtVi1DXOTKyPepVXNxsPHTnkWCU04MkwQT+weT bCQMSAZxfaxEyKNKDMJJTnYSBAiTCmUBFNrnIecAZHfdYAZdbNmnS3mi1WgUbwSFVnPM2e9xloQqg LhhHLA2g==; Original-Received: from [5.148.46.34] (port=50764 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1bn3RT-0009vK-9j; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:49:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:36:00 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207693 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> Unless we move all the files in ELPA git to be external branches. >>> Of course, that's another option. We should rework the GNU ELPA >>> building scripts to make this scale better, tho (such a rework would be >>> beneficial for many other reasons anyway). >> Taken to the extreme, we could just go the MELPA route; the ELPA repo >> contains recipes, with the packages stored elsewhere (or on an external >> branch). > > But that's exactly what I don't want: GNU ELPA should not be just > a distribution of third party packages. For that, we already have MELPA > which works just fine. I think that the software and social organisation are different. The packages could be in independent repositories on savannah for instance. No real reason why these should be considered to be third party. Phil