Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 20:26:11 +0100
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, 
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > > Are there any GNU packages for Emacs that still use CVS?  If
> > > yes, why don't they use Git?
> >
> > Again, not relevant.  package-vc should support all the VCS backends
> > that VC supports, for as long as Emacs supports that VCS in general.
> 
> Of course it is relevant.  AFAIU, Stefan M argued that it's *not very
> important*, not that it shouldn't be supported at all.

That's not what he said.

Anyway, my point is that our current policy is to try to support all
the VCSes in VC at the same level.  We don't always succeed, for
various reasons, but we don't consider it "counter-productive" nor
"waste of effort" to do so.  So "importance" is not a factor here.