Re: NonGNU ELPA

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 11/21/20 6:22 PM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
>>> Or will there be a script that pulls repositories into these individual 
>>> branches?
>>
>> That!  And no, it's not written yet.
>> Note that this doesn't even have to run on elpa.gnu.org, you all can
>> participate in this effort ;-)
>>
>>> And won't the repo become gigantic?
>>
>> I don't expect it will become significantly larger than the actual ELPA
>> archive itself:
> 
> Is there any reason to suspect that this will become an issue?
> AFAIK, Git is pretty good at handling large repositories.

Cloning large repositories can be quite slow, that's it.  Assuming that no one 
needs to do this except the build machine, that should be fine, but if we want 
to push patches (as is sometimes done in ELPA) then it could become an issue?  
Even if it's not cloned often I worry about the time it takes to switch 
branches if very large external repositories get imported.