From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:47:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178988805 16732 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2007 16:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 12 18:53:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmuqR-0006gG-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 18:53:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmuxz-0001gz-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmuvi-0005IR-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmuvh-0005GW-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmuvh-0005G8-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hmuo8-00040I-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HmulB-0003GA-I0; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:47:57 -0400 In-reply-to: (joakim@verona.se) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70905 Archived-At: Tom Tromey posted a simple implementation of a package system to emacs.sources recently. It works fairly well, so the time is already invested. I wish that were true, but most of the work of installing a package system is making everything _use_ it. Compared with systems like Eclipse, installing an emacs package consists of some fairly boring obviously automatable steps. (like hunting for the package, I don't see how any code installed in Emacs could save you the need for that. downloading in the right dir, entering the correct invocation in .emacs, etc...) Since just loading the files is not supposed to change Emacs functionality, I think the need for this cannot be avoided. So that doesn't leave much good that a package system could do.