[AUCTeX-devel] Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX

[Ralf Angeli]

* Richard Stallman (2006-12-30) writes:

>     Then there might be the problem that RefTeX is not in a releasable
>     state at the time an Emacs release is about to happen.
>
> This is exactly why it is bad to maintain parts of Emacs in a separate
> repository.  Every such package causes difficulty for Emacs releases.

If the part is maintained in a separate repository it is possible to
check code into Emacs' repository when it is in releasable state,
e.g. when a separate release of the part is being made.  Then one can
go on developing in the separate repository without endangering Emacs'
state as a whole.  Thus, in Emacs there there would be releasable code
of the package at any time.  With such a policy I would not expect the
difficulty you mentioned to appear.

-- 
Ralf