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Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages
From: |
Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:57:05 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) |
David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
> Stephen Leake writes:
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>>> In Emacs-25.1, I'd like to start bundling some GNU ELPA packages into
>>>>> Emacs.
>>>> Now I'm curious. What's the purpose of having a package system and then
>>>> bundling packages?
>>>
>>> I'm sure the XEmacs guys could tell you ;-)
>>>
>>> Having a package in ELPA means that it can be updated independently
>>> from Emacs.
>>>
>>> Having packages in elpa.git instead of emacs.git makes their release
>>> schedules independent.
>>>
>>> Having bundled packages in both emacs.git and in elpa.git means
>>> 2 branches to keep in sync.
>>
>> This says why we should have ELPA, and packages either in elpa.git or
>> emacs.git but not both.
>>
>> The question was why we should then bundle some packages from ELPA in
>> the release tarball.
>
> Because users expect that Emacs ships with Org, Gnus and CEDET by
> default.
Perhaps it's time to change that expectation.
For example, I don't use Org or CEDET. So your "users" is leaving out at
least me :).
Debian and Ubuntu must have similar issues about what to include in
their "standard installers"; anyone know enough about that to
contribute?
--
-- Stephe
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, (continued)
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Tassilo Horn, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Jonathan Leech-Pepin, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, joakim, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/07
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Tassilo Horn, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, David Engster, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Stephen Leake, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, David Engster, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages,
Stephen Leake <=
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/08
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/11/06
Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Achim Gratz, 2014/11/06
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