Re: Sync up the org in emacs master to org maint branch?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

> So far, all of these arguments against a tighter development integration with
> ELPA have been predicated on the way that ELPA is used today. ELPA is under
> our control; we can adjust our process to suit the needs of Emacs development.

Yes, but external packages lose much of their value if they aren't
developed in a compatible manner.

> LI> Emacs doesn't seem to have a massive surfeit of developers, so I wonder
> LI> where this plan comes from.
>
> It comes from the desire to decouple the development of large, mostly external
> projects, from core Emacs. They don't belong in Emacs.git.

But you're talking about coupling ELPA tighter with core Emacs, too.
"They don't belong" isn't really much of an argument here.

The question is: What is the most effective way for Emacs developers to
spend their time?  I can't really see that anybody has made the case
that shifting stuff from Emacs core to ELPA will mean less work for...
well, anybody.

(Except perhaps CEDET.  There seems to be a lot of merging problems
there.)

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