Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> More than I knew about. Replacing package.el would indeed be a way
>>> forward (although you'd need to run both in parallel for a while).
>> They're so close to each other that rather than replacing them, they
>> need to be merged or modularized so that they build on top of each
>> other.
>> package.el is not nearly as constraining as people tend to think.
> I'd just like it to cope with several versions and with Emacs version
> dependencies.

We agree.  And the underlying design is perfectly able to cope with it.
I haven't checked, but it's even possible that package.el already
handles it correctly if/when the `archive-contents` file contains
various different versions of the same package.

IOW it might be a simple matter of adjusting the scripts that build
the archive(s).


        Stefan