From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs release and bundling GNU Elpa Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:20:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83si9jhi5u.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2uvh92y.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435065683 12335 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2015 13:21:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 23 15:21:11 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 1Z7O8T-00040W-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:21:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7O8S-00065u-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7O7z-00065a-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7O7v-0001pP-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7O7v-0001gI-4l; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t5NDKTU8014009; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 54C0F660F3; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:20:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:55:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5346=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5346> : inlines <3260> : streams <1460151> : uri <1967052> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:187413 Archived-At: > If this is taken forward, copying these packages sources from elpa.git > to emacs not be optional, i.e., it will be a mandatory step in the > make command. This is the only way for other packages in =E2=80=9C./lisp/= =E2=80=9D to > be able to depend on these imported packages. > Updating the submodule will only be necessary once in a while (when > the configuration file specifies a newer version for a package than > the version you have locally, and the makefile will tell you about > that), but it will be necessary. I think that for 25.1, we could limit this to step 1 or 2. I.e. it should mandatorily be included in the tarball, but when building from Git it should still be optional (or not supported at all). Stefan