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Re: What is GNU ELPA?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: What is GNU ELPA? |
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Sat, 16 May 2020 08:48:55 -0400 |
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> As I understand it, space is the only reason that we don't
> put all those packages in the core.
AFAIK space was definitely not the motivation (GNU ELPA has grown a fair
bit since then, so maybe nowadays we'd think twice before adding those
packages to emacs.git, but it's still not the main motivation, AFAICT).
The reasons were rather to:
- Decouple those packages from Emacs's release cycle.
- Avoid the never ending problems with packages that are in emacs.git
but whose "upstream" is elsewhere, where the two code bases require
extra efforts to keep them in sync (enough efforts that sometimes this
sync is lost, as is the case for CEDET IIRC).
- More generally give more freedom to the authors (many authors are
*not* interested in having their code in emacs.git because of the
extra constraints that it implies).
The last two problems *also* affect GNU ELPA, ironically, tho to
a lesser extent.
Stefan
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, (continued)
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/15
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/15
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/15
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/15
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/15
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/18