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: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853b1qg358.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86wsz2gu9l.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180041900 5784 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 21:25:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 23:24:55 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 1HrKnl-0005R9-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrKno-0008VS-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrKlh-0007Uu-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrKlg-0007UY-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrKlg-0007UI-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrKlg-00082F-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrKlY-0002qu-51; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:22:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <86wsz2gu9l.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 21 May 2007 15:51:02 +0200) 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:71774 Archived-At: If we provide Emacs commands that produce a package _and_ can install into an Emacs CVS work copy (probably generating appropriate ChangeLog entries semi-automatically) _and_ can install into local directories for a running Emacs, all from the same package source tree, we basically are at a point where contributing to Emacs CVS is a zero-pain procedure once one finished testing and installing locally. If those commands don't do much more than a recursive copy, so much the better: it would mean that one could convert one form into a different one easily, not requiring starting from a "canonical" source version. I am confused by this response, because I was talking about installation into a separate repository of packages not included in Emacs itself, but you're talking about installation into Emacs. That doesn't mean your idea is not a good one, but I am not sure what its point is.