Re: Org merging [was Re: next pretest]

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "Achim" == Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
>> Preventively, I'm claiming Humtpy-Dumpty privileges.  I thought the
>> development projects get to decide what their bleeding edge is.
>
> I'm more important, so I get to decide.  And by "important" I mean
> exactly what I mean.  Don't put worth in my mouth, please!
>
>> Not so fast.  To the best of my knowledge ELPA doesn't run make on the
>> projects there, so the Org package you're producing would be non-functional
>> -- which was the raison d'être for the current solution (or "hack"), IIRC.
>
> Very good point.  The GNU ELPA infrastructure might need some beefing up
> before it can produce a good package from the Org source code.  I don't
> know the specific, but a few other packages require such extra "build"
> stage (AUCTeX comes to mind, as does the recent discussion about Texinfo
> docs), so it's something that needs to happen anyway.

As someone essentially unqualified to comment, I'll keep this short: how
about checking for an "elpa" target to make? Run it if it exists, do
nothing if it doesn't.

Done!

Eric