Re: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added

[Alain Schneble]

address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:

> After that, where blah.el is a package in core format, and foo.el is a
> package in elpa format, we can do:
>
> a)
>
> EMACS/lisp/blah.el
> EMACS/packages/foo/foo.el
>
> which is nice because it cleanly separates out the two layouts.
>
> b)
>
> EMACS/lisp/elpa/packages/foo/foo.el
> EMACS/lisp/unified/blah.el
>
> which also seperates the two layouts, but would require lots of file
> moves form the current system.
>
> Or c)
>
> EMACS/lisp/blah.el
> EMACS/lisp/elpa/packages/foo/foo.el
>
> which keeps all the lisp files under the lisp top-level dir, does not
> require file moves, but pushes the two directory structures together,
> complicating the build.
>

There's also d) where an elpa package would just go into it's
corresponding directory under EMACS/lisp, e.g. EMACS/lisp/org if org is
an elpa package.  Of course, there's a chance of name clashes here, but
both GNU Emacs and GNU elpa are under the same control IIUC.

Alain