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

[Nic Ferrier]

address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:

> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
>> The centralization isn't really a problem right now you think. But I bet
>> it is. You're making people work inside a source tree that doesn't
>> belong to them and you're constraining the technical content they put
>> there.
>>
>> You're also inviting people to break the Makefile because they want
>> their own build.
>>
>> You're also inviting people to check in non-working code.
>>
>> You might say "these things have not happened yet". But that's because
>> there are very few ELPA authors so far. Maybe one of the reasons there
>> are so few ELPA authors is that it's weird.
>
>
> There is some truth in this. I feel rather more nervous commting into
> ELPA because it contains so many pieces of work from others. With my own
> repo's, that's fine. If I screw things up, then it's my problem.

Kinda implies there isn't any truth in the rest of it :-(


Nic