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

[Nic Ferrier]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> that package.  So the first question to decide would be if elpa.git is a
>> source archive or a package archive.
>
> I want it to be a source archive.


You're wrong to want that for several reasons:

- you constrain packages to have source that is managed only by the
  elpa.git makefile

- you hide the build system from most authors

- eventually it won't scale, massive branching in a git repo just to
  manage totally different packages is not what git was made for.


I don't understand why you don't do the obvious thing that nearly every
packaging system does and accept the need for specifically made
artifacts.


Nic