From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: EWW To Elpa? Re: Having a custom merge process Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:51:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2o1ksi8.fsf@gnus.org> References: <8337urm0cv.fsf@gnu.org> <83ziwzkl50.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh8jvsqh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83si2qliho.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1tulaa1.fsf@gnu.org> <838u4il3jf.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4cijo24.fsf@gnu.org> <83twn6jm7e.fsf@gnu.org> <87twn686cn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <837fk1k0i4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451152354 18230 80.91.229.3 (26 Dec 2015 17:52:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:52:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , Eli Zaretskii , deng@randomsample.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 18:52:23 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 1aCt0w-0005Wc-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:52:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCt0v-0000fT-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCt0j-0000fM-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:52:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCt0g-0003xg-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:49847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCt0g-0003xb-Bo; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from 2.150.58.24.tmi.telenormobil.no ([2.150.58.24] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aCt0K-0002xG-FA; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:51:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: (raman@google.com's message of "Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:00:01 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aCt0K-0002xG-FA MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1451757105.21892@9ZocW6+wpe+b0AubXK5cxA X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:196900 Archived-At: raman writes: > Given that EWW is a relatively stand-alone package, should it also be > available via elpa -- in addition to being bundled? No, that would make eww much more awkward to develop. Making a package usable in one single environment (well, two with a release branch and trunk) is way, way, way less work than making it work over a larger range of environments. > Asking specifically because recent fixes have only landed in Master -- > not the 25.1 branch, and at this point, there are things in 25.1 that > are not in Master -- so even for those building from git@head, it's hard > to get all the goodness in one build. Well, the mergings from 25.1 to the trunk should happen more frequently from now on, according to rumblings on this mailing list... :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no