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Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and


From: Nic Ferrier
Subject: Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:27:26 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:24:21 -0500
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Note that there is a fair bit a pressure to *add* rather than remove
>> magic steps (the first candidate in the list is to build the *.info
>> files from the *.texi files).
>
> I hope we will be able to resist that pressure.

You're mistaking the build step. The build step is where you take
sources and generate an artifact. Our artifacts are called packages.

The user's install packages/artifacts.

So any build complication is all on the author. As it should be.


Nic



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