Re: [O] Bleeding edge in elpa

[Rasmus]

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:

> Rasmus writes:
>> I agree.  I have the same problem when I build documents (via CI) on a
>> remote Debian server where I don't want to mess around with anything more
>> than what comes with Emacs by default.
>
> You can use a tarball and the support for manual builds, described in:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-build-system.html#sec-7

I have no desire to use anything more than what comes with emacs-24-nox on
this system.

>> I understand that in Emacs 25 Org, Company, Gnus, CEDET and maybe a couple
>> of other packages will move to GNU ELPA and thus separate release channels
>> (these packages will still be bundled with Emacs).  This means we can push
>> out new versions easily, making more frequent releases more
>> attractive.
>
> None of this is going to lift one core limitation of package manager:
> "there can be only one".  It doesn't support packages that subsume other
> packages, so "org-whatever" is totally different from "org" and would be
> installed together when referenced by dependencies even though it makes
> no sense.

I'm arguing against "org-whatever" and for less time between Org version N
and (1+ N).

—Rasmus

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