Re: Org merging [was Re: next pretest]

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> As someone essentially unqualified to comment, I'll keep this short: how
>> about checking for an "elpa" target to make? Run it if it exists, do
>> nothing if it doesn't.
>
> Of course, but that's not the issue.  The problems are rather:
> - The machine on which the GNU ELPA archive is built is a small virtual
>   machine, with fairly few software packages installed, currently.
>   We can add more, of course.
> - Since the GNU ELPA archive is auto-built nightly from the `elpa'
>   branch and (inevitably) many people have write access to the `elpa'
>   branch, there's a security issue if we run just arbitrary code from
>   the `elpa' branch.

Yup, went above my paygrade even faster than I'd expected. Oh well..