From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:36:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160916203414.25203.87032@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20160916203416.8DF2F220166@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87vaxsjmvu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <878tunj2wr.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474303054 24666 195.159.176.226 (19 Sep 2016 16:37:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:37:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 18:37:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1ZH-0004oP-Og for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:37:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1ZG-0003DD-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1Yi-0003Cg-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1Ye-00052M-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54853 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1Ye-00051a-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:36:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1YQ-0007Bs-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:36:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6tBedTujbVeRl89vLAiIIMIIn5A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207614 Archived-At: >>> Unless we move all the files in ELPA git to be external branches. >> Of course, that's another option. We should rework the GNU ELPA >> building scripts to make this scale better, tho (such a rework would be >> beneficial for many other reasons anyway). > Taken to the extreme, we could just go the MELPA route; the ELPA repo > contains recipes, with the packages stored elsewhere (or on an external > branch). But that's exactly what I don't want: GNU ELPA should not be just a distribution of third party packages. For that, we already have MELPA which works just fine. Stefan