Re: ELPA policy

[Stephen Leake]

Filipp Gunbin <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/11/2015 09:11 -0800, John Wiegley wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Filipp Gunbin <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> A "tarball" ELPA package is a one thing (that's what I call "bundle into
>>> tarball", if I understood right), but "core" ELPA package is another
>>
>> I must have missed this distinction. What is the difference between "tarball
>> ELPA" and "core ELPA"?  I was thinking of "core" as anything that is in
>> Emacs.git.
>
> If I got it right, a "tarball" package is copied from elpa.git into the
> tarball at release time.  This is to bundle package so that Internet is
> not required to install it (whether or not it is installed by default).
>
> "core" package is developed in emacs.git (because core code depends on
> it and we have to have full environment in the repo), but then can be
> updated from elpa if new version is available.  This is to allow
> frequent updates of such packages.

Yes.

I'm working on writing this up for admin/notes/elpa.

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