From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:45:20 -0600 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179698751 21063 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2007 22:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 22:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 00:05:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HptWi-0003UP-8m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 00:05:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HptWh-0007bw-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HptWJ-0006xA-4Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HptWI-0006vD-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HptWI-0006v6-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HptWH-0006Rt-5V; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4KM4qSs018667; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4KM4prM004042; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4KM4oea016069; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id DB6F637839C; Sun, 20 May 2007 15:45:20 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 20 May 2007 13\:05\:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71454 Archived-At: >>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman writes: > How about if I change things so that package.el looks at a list of > repositories, which by default only includes the FSF-owned site? rms> This might tempt redistributors (such as GNU/Linux distros) to add rms> other repositories. I don't want to ask for trouble. Unfortunately this does not align very well with my goals in writing package.el. My goal is to make it much simpler for Emacs users to download and install the many useful un-integrated Emacs packages that are out there. And, in my view, this has to include the 3rd party, unassigned code -- there's a wealth of this on ELL and the Emacs Wiki, and its existence, far from hurting Emacs in some way, is actually a vital part of the thriving Emacs community. So I think we've reached an impasse. I suppose package.el can comfortably continue to live outside of Emacs itself. With the auto installer (and the coming code to update package.el itself) it is not a big problem for interested users to install it. Tom