From: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>
To: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Periodical releases
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:36:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACY+HvrWRS7HkL_0B0Rxde_7uwNPK9zmT75aN8iptxw1nNadEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1B686E6-54F1-432D-8484-B21FBA6F42D9@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:54 PM, chad <yandros@gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the primary motivator for more frequent releases
> of emacs itself is `so emacs doesn't drift so far from its sub-parts', like
> as Gnus, Org, CEDET, CC-mode (in the past), etc. This is a laudable
> goal, but emacs doesn't seem to currently have the developer cycles
> necessary to handle this - releases are frequently held up by documentation
> changes and reviews even now, with the infrequent releases we have.
>
> Hopefully, the included package system can cover this gap, once it's fully spread
> through the userbase; users will be able to easily opt-in to newer Gnus releases
> (for example) via elpa(s)/packages. If we get this working reliably, we could even
> remove some packages from the emacs core, in favor of more frequent
> package-based releases. While this model might have once seemed burdensome
> to users, several years of such systems (for example, in web browser extension
> updates) will have already trained them to deal with such things before emacs
> starts doing something similar.
>
> That's my hope, anyway.
I fully support removing non-essential modes from emacs, now that
packaging is supported officially in a consistent way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-31 12:00 Periodical releases Carsten Mattner
2012-01-01 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-02 10:40 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 12:57 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 19:54 ` chad
2012-01-02 21:36 ` Carsten Mattner [this message]
2012-01-02 20:29 ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-02 21:31 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:41 ` Lluís
2012-01-02 21:23 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 22:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 22:27 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 2:34 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 2:58 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-05 3:36 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 4:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-01-05 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 13:41 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 9:31 ` Bastien
2012-01-05 10:11 ` Leo
2012-01-05 11:31 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 12:56 ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 14:00 ` Leo
2012-01-05 14:30 ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 11:28 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 14:18 ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-05 11:33 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 12:20 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-03 22:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-03 18:18 ` What's in a feature? (was: Periodical releases) Bastien
2012-01-04 3:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-04 10:03 ` What's in a feature? Bastien
2012-01-04 12:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
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