From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] build: Add 'emacs-build-system' Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:21:12 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCNBq-0003ZP-Cj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:21:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCNBp-0000Jb-IZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:21:14 -0400 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: alezost@gmail.com Cc: Guix-devel Alex Kost writes: > Wouldn't it be better to name it "elpa-build-system" as that's what it > is in my opinion, since it does not retrieve the source directly from > upstream but from ELPA/MELPA/... "repositories" instead. The build system doesn't assume anything about the source location. > > I imagine there may appear another build system for simple emacs > packages (that don't provide Makefile, etc.) that will compile elisp > files, generate autoloads and so on. I think it will be a system that > should be called "emacs-build-system". WDYT? That's what the proposed build system does. If it lacks some functionality that you think is desirable, I think it is better to add it here rather than adding another, almost identical, build system. Regards, Fede