Re: Magit

[Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>]

On 2022-09-07 14:19, Richard Stallman wrote:
>   > As is the default for NonGNU ELPA, the Magit repository is 
> automatically
>   > synchronised and mirrored.  Whenever the version tag in the package
>   > header is bumped, a new version is released.
> 
> That's normally a good way -- but then I wonder, how was it that a
> user found a significant difference between the behavior of the Magit
> in NonGNU ELPA and the one on another repo?

That user would most likely have installed Magit from the MELPA
archive, which tracks the unstable development of every package
-- each time MELPA sees a change to a source repository, it builds
a new release of that package.

GNU ELPA and NonGNU ELPA, conversely, provide new releases only
when they observe that the package maintainer updated the version
string -- commits made between those version updates do not result
in a new release.

(Which of these two approaches provides the "best" version of
any given package at any given time might vary, of course.)


-Phil