From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA and release frequency Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8lm0yhtuul6tmc.fsf@iki.fi> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33247"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 26 05:11:38 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtr8-0008Z1-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:11:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56716 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtr7-0004j5-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtpp-0003wp-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtpo-0001Me-QB; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtpn-0006dY-BZ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 24 Oct 2020 14:47:59 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258453 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. ]]] > FWIW, I was hoping to set it up this week, but obviously, time passed > faster than planned. > My plan was to take the GNU ELPA infrastructure, duplicate it to the > (currently empty) emacs/nongnu.git repository, tweak it mostly by > removing the parts that aren't applicable (i.e. only support "external" > package), then add a few packages. > It would run on elpa.gnu.org and be served under elpa.gnu.org/nongnu > After that, I would have started to work on scripts to pull from remote > Git repositories and push to the corresponding nongnu.git branch, and > then improving the ELPA scripts so that single packages can be rebuilt > instead of always rebuilding them all. I think that road will get to the right destination. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)