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: VC mode and git Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:10:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <86d23xe9bd.fsf@example.com> <86zj71ct2z.fsf@example.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427425860 28009 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2015 03:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 03:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Steinar Bang Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 04:10:53 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 1YbKfc-00055m-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 04:10:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbKfb-0008Kg-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbKfE-0008KM-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbKfD-0006JA-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:10:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbKfD-0006J6-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbKfB-0001UF-Pp; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:10:25 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Steinar Bang on Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:31:39 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:184361 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Marmalade and melpa are not maintained as part of Emacs. If a package > > is there, we should not recommend it as the preferred way to do > > something. Rather, we should improve VC with the features and commands > > that it is missing. > Will having magit in GNU ELPA be sufficient? That would make it ok to recommend Magit, but it might still be better and simpler overall to integrate Magit's useful features to VC rather than have it as a separate package. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.