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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal) |
Date: | Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:34:01 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> 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: I don't think I can be "wrong" there, tho you may disagree with the importance of some of my wishes: there has to be a source somewhere, and I wish it to be available at a single place (which is a currently single Git repository but could be a tree of repositories, as long as I can "make pull" and get them all, and as long as they're on gnu.org property to remind authors that they shouldn't be pushing stuff there that doesn't have proper copyright). > - you constrain packages to have source that is managed only by the > elpa.git makefile I could live with a secondary archive of "pre-built" thingies so that the build can be done externally. > 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. I don't know what you mean, Stefan
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