Re: Integrating package.el

[Phil Hagelberg]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm going to continue my work on package.el whether or not it is
>> accepted into Emacs, but it would be a shame to make users go through
>> extra installation steps to use it.
>
> Having myself written a package manager (install.el), I'm clearly fully
> in favor of integrating something like package.el.
> I don't think there's necessarily much work to be done to integrate it.
>
> E.g. It is not necessary to set up a VCS area to keep the package
> sources (and other such things) before integrating package.el.

True, this is not of the highest importance since the steps it takes can
still be done manually without too much tedium.

> Basically, all I want is for it to be able to distinguish between
> "packages available locally, either installed by the user or the
> sysadmin", and "packages that will be autoloaded in a given session", so
> as to be able to install different versions of the same package at the
> same time.

OK, I will prioritize this once I finish adding support for multiple
archive sources. I think we'll need this in order to support separating
out fully-supported packages vs unsupported packages for which we simply
have copyright assignment as Ted has suggested.

thanks,
Phil