Re: Linking Url into Emacs/lisp

[William M. Perry]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

>> There is also a danger that you won't get appropriate changelog messages in
>> one or the other repositories.  Currently the URL library keeps all of the
>> ChangeLog entries in .../url/ChangeLog (instead of having a separate one in
>> lisp, texi, etc).  If someone makes an edit in Emacs' version of the
>> repository, the changelog will end up going in ../ChangeLog, etc.  Is this
>> a big deal?  Should I move the lisp-related changelog entries into
>> lisp/ChangeLog?
>
> This is mostly orthogonal to how we get the URL files included.  Or maybe
> not: would it be a problem for you to get rid of the Url module
> altogether and use the Emacs repository as *the* url repository ?

This would make it difficult for people to update URL outside of an Emacs
release.  I would like to maintain a separate package (.tar.gz, debian
package, etc) with its own separate build system if at all possible.

-bp
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