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: Integrating package.el Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:06:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87zl50jv52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d41rn3wt.fsf_-_@hagelb.org> <87k4vxiwlj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878wcdjg9r.fsf@hagelb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262704053 31749 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 15:07:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Ted Zlatanov , Phil Hagelberg , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 16:07:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from terminus-est.gnu.org ([66.92.78.210] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSB0E-0002U1-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:07:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57229 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSB0D-0007SA-Pa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:07:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSB04-0007QG-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSB00-0007Ni-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35037 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSAzz-0007Nf-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:8388 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSAzy-00028R-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:07:07 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwFAGLkQkvO+KPG/2dsb2JhbACBRdIRhDAEiik X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,506,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="52999333" Original-Received: from 206-248-163-198.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.163.198]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2010 10:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E9784B4077; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:06:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:37:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119434 Archived-At: >> Tom Tromey writes: >> I've also got a quick prototype of a DVCS-centric archive management >> tool (for gathering packages from library authors and publishing them) >> that I will post soon once I've fleshed it out a bit more. > This sounds good to me. I believe that ELPA should not hold the files > but rather have pointers to them. Otherwise the turnaround time will > be longer for changes made to the files. The default repositor(y|ies) will want to be under FSF control (not just the copyright, but we also want to have a copy of the files, etc...) so we can assume that the FSF will usually also hold the "master repository" for those packages. I.e. we probably don't want to only hold pointers to files. Tho of course, such an indirection might still be useful somewhere. Stefan