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Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:40:50 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> The only downside I can see is that users upgrading from Emacs 24 to
>> 25 might get startup errors because formerly built-in packages aren't
>> anymore. But that can be documented easily:
>>
>> If you used the built-in org-mode version in Emacs < 25, do
>>
>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. M-x package-install RET org RET
>> 3. Now you can restart emacs without -Q
>
> There are only disadvantages here. You add conditions that, if they
> are not satisfied, will interfere with the upgrade. It's a nuisance
> for no good reason.
Ok, I can understand bundling org and gnus because they've previously
been built-in. But when we now start bundling even more packages, those
are the next that can never ever be removed for that very same reason.
If their maintainers are hit by a truck, then you and the other Emacs
devs will have to take over. Ditto if such a package is superseeded by
some better alternative.
Just saying: if a package is distributed with emacs, that's a kind of
guarantee that it'll still be there in the next decades to come.
Bye,
Tassilo
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, (continued)
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Tassilo Horn, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Jonathan Leech-Pepin, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, joakim, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/07
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, David Engster, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Stephen Leake, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, David Engster, 2014/11/06
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Stephen Leake, 2014/11/08
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/08
- Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/11/06
Re: Bundling GNU ELPA packages, Achim Gratz, 2014/11/06