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: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87v8zbp5l7.fsf@posteo.net> 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="15363"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 05:21:19 2021 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 1n1hVf-0003qu-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:21:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35998 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hVe-00044U-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hQ2-0001L2-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45066 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hQ1-0003IN-W7; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:30 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Pft9HZK6lutkbsQ4y0Cd8YScPeD5fvge+2QyRqGwJ4w=; b=l3Of7IHbBNTB pmgQnkpUR9J86YddohXd5PBRnbCl1QG7Rx8jmh/2/pgXEwkneRxG8XYas/DoUfQ8h2MK5p6SUz1af KbivkfsbfzvghY55zJKtzlclPdCN+GlZ4ECtqI6/E3l88v5raByeyA/I6KZoTH85Sfw/xlUBBprxy +2oXYBVrYIfdbcyRaERo8OYd1w35rTVZ6nvmWY29F+vJguM9iUBCg5aHpRnE+/3ArLxKeU0D/LxgV lSWmLuxOvUSGqdi8gO5T41s9z8OA6WFwvSKevn4DpRSzlNSQXWemxilRNdkvV6j03KZfWp90H1+u1 PbYFCHDuS/FczrqGTmuNvw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hQ2-0001eX-7g; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v8zbp5l7.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:46:12 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283387 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. ]]] > I have been thinking implementing something like this, where package.el > could handle a > ;; VC: https://source.com/package.git > like header that would indicate where the source code for a package was > being managed and could be downloaded and prepared (autoload, load-path > overriding the default package, ...) when requested. Could you describe this functionality more concretely, so that people who don't thoroughly know this field can understand what it would do? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)