Re: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Sure, that's true. My point was, thought, that MELPA as it stands would
>> support the workflow of ELPA. The only difference, really, is that MELPA
>> requires tags to identify stable releases, which seems not a bad thing.
>> How this would work with lots of packages in one repo, though, I do not
>> know.
>
> Of course, one issue with one-repo-per-package is that in order to find
> out which packages to (re)build, we either need to constantly poll all
> the repositories, or we need some side-band signal.
>
> Git is pretty good at updating all the branches of a single repository,
> in comparison.


Yes, agreed. I would poll because it's simple. It might become
problematic when we have many thousands of packages, although MELPA does
it with 3000.

Phil