Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Assuming (2) achieves all that, from the core maintainer's perspective,
>> what's the difference?  The downside is they have two repos to deal
>> with, and the interactions between the two to always consider (e.g., do
>> we branch all of ELPA to match Emacs branches (probably not), or write
>> all ELPA packages to work on any Emacs branch (probably), etc.).
> There is actually a problem here with the way the ELPA is structured,
> since it already uses branches for (some) packages. This is not going to
> marry easily with the use of branches for something else.

Rather than a problem I see it as a defining aspect of whether a package
should be in elpa.git or in emacs.git, since the whole point of having
"unbundled packages" is so that their release schedule is not tied to
that of Emacs.


        Stefan