Re: Making AUCTeX ELPA releases from the master branch

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi all,
> some weeks ago, Philip Kaludercic saw a commit of mine triggering a new
> AUCTeX ELPA release and asked why there were changes to files which
> shouldn't be committed because they are generated from other files,
> e.g., info files.


>   - There's also a completely different alternative: make the
>     externals/elpa the new "main" branch and drop master and tarball
>     releases altogether.  Is there still a justification for having
>     them?  I mean, we dropped XEmacs support anyway and it should be
>     easy enough for distros to just use the ELPA tarballs as basis for
>     their distro packages.


Just to be sure. 
For  any of these two proposals: 

It would be still possible to pull (fetch) and compile auctex
independently of emacs? I am asking because gnus since some time is part
of Emacs so upgrading gnus without upgrading emacs is not easy to say
the least.

Uwe Brauer  

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