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: Bundling GNU ELPA packages Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:02:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878ujowbnh.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415293358 32016 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2014 17:02:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:02:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 06 18:02:31 2014 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 1XmQS3-0008H4-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:02:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmQS3-0004x2-FS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmQRl-0004Ya-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmQRd-0005DB-SO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:10698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmQRd-0005D2-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:02:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuwMAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWMws0EhQYDYhvCctyAQsgkQ8WhDUFi2SmPIFvhBYfgnoBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AuwMAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWMws0EhQYDYhvCctyAQsgkQ8WhDUFi2SmPIFvhBYfgnoBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="96116053" Original-Received: from 75-119-235-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.235.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 06 Nov 2014 12:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F1BE9660D4; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:02:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <878ujowbnh.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:12:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:176460 Archived-At: >> In Emacs-25.1, I'd like to start bundling some GNU ELPA packages into >> Emacs. > Now I'm curious. What's the purpose of having a package system and then > bundling packages? I'm sure the XEmacs guys could tell you ;-) Having a package in ELPA means that it can be updated independently from Emacs. Having packages in elpa.git instead of emacs.git makes their release schedules independent. Having bundled packages in both emacs.git and in elpa.git means 2 branches to keep in sync. Stefan