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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  <address@hidden>,  <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:41:54 +0100
> 
> > There's also d) where an elpa package would just go into it's
> > corresponding directory under EMACS/lisp, e.g. EMACS/lisp/org if org is
> > an elpa package.  Of course, there's a chance of name clashes here, but
> > both GNU Emacs and GNU elpa are under the same control IIUC.
> 
> Would require us to keep track of which packages are package.el format
> and which packages are not, spread throughout multiple directories. As
> well as making the build a PITA (and fragile when we forget to update
> the list), it would be confusing for the developers who would have to
> remember two different sets of package structures.

If these difficulties are indeed real and grave, we could indeed use a
separate sub-tree.  But I don't think we should give up without
trying, without actually seeing the difficulties and trying to solve
them.