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Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and


From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:53:13 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
> The centralization isn't really a problem right now you think. But I bet
> it is. You're making people work inside a source tree that doesn't
> belong to them and you're constraining the technical content they put
> there.
>
> You're also inviting people to break the Makefile because they want
> their own build.
>
> You're also inviting people to check in non-working code.
>
> You might say "these things have not happened yet". But that's because
> there are very few ELPA authors so far. Maybe one of the reasons there
> are so few ELPA authors is that it's weird.


There is some truth in this. I feel rather more nervous commting into
ELPA because it contains so many pieces of work from others. With my own
repo's, that's fine. If I screw things up, then it's my problem.




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