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Re: Adding packages to ELPA
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: Adding packages to ELPA |
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Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:31:12 -0400 |
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> * Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> [2014-09-19 09:26:04 +0300]:
>
>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:03:12 -0400
>> Cc: Rasmus <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>
>> I've been the main driving force behind the addition of packages to GNU
>> ELPA so far. I hope other people can give me a hand.
>
> It might help if you could explain the rationale for that drive. It
> is entirely mysterious in my eyes, which is more disturbing as it is
> clear to me that this is somehow very important to you.
The issue is control:
rms writes:
>>> For popular packages to be distributed outside of Emacs and ELPA
>>> has some bad consequences:
>>> * We can't change them when we change some part of Emacs that they use.
>>> That makes it hard for us to change interfaces.
>>> * We don't have copyright assignments in them, so we can't move the code
>>> into Emacs.
>>> * They may say things that work against the GNU Project in other ways,
>>> such as by recommending nonfree programs, or by recommending rivals of
>>> GNU packages.
>>> I think therefore that we do more to move the popular packages into
>>> ELPA or Emacs.
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- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/09/18
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Rasmus, 2014/09/18
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/18
- Adding packages to ELPA (was: Emacs Lisp's future), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Rasmus, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Nic Ferrier, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA,
Sam Steingold <=
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Sam Steingold, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Phillip Lord, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Richard Stallman, 2014/09/19
- Re: Adding packages to ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19