From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8jmL-0006ER-3O for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:58:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8jmE-0000s2-Dt for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:57:58 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8jlO-0000UI-04 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:57:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h8jlN-0003ua-OE for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:57:01 -0400 Subject: [bug#34865] [PATCH] Add emacs-zones. Resent-Message-ID: References: <87o96bulym.fsf@gmail.com> <87y3561tgq.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftrct529.fsf@gmail.com> <87va06ht4f.fsf@gnu.org> From: Ricardo Wurmus In-reply-to: <87va06ht4f.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:55:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87tvfp52hm.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 34865@debbugs.gnu.org, Brian Leung Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi Oleg, > > Oleg Pykhalov skribis: > >> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> >> [=E2=80=A6] >> >>>> Could we use emacs-zones from Elpa? See >>>> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/zones.html . =E2=80=98guix import elpa >>>> emacs-zones=E2=80=99 will produce a decent =E2=80=98origin=E2=80=99 re= cord to pull a source. >>> >>> My understanding is that ELPA and MELPA tarballs are not necessarily >>> persistent and immutable, and that we generally prefer referring >>> directly to the upstream repo. >> >> Ouch, I thought ELPA is persistent. That's a significant argument to >> not use ELPA for our purposes :-( . I only know that MELPA isn=E2=80=99t immutable. I assumed that ELPA is fin= e. >> We preferred ELPA over GitHub's Git repositories in emacs-xys.scm >> (emacs.scm in past), didn't we? > > Hmmm, not sure, Ricardo, what=E2=80=99s the story? :-) I don=E2=80=99t think we did. I can=E2=80=99t think of even one case where= we switched from git-fetch from GitHub to url-fetch from ELPA. git-fetch is the preferred way when there are no stable tarballs. -- Ricardo