Re: ELPA policy

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/09/2015 06:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Nothing prevents us from making the same arrangements in the Emacs
> repository as we have in ELPA, and then users could add the Emacs
> repository to their list of sites that package.el knows about.

Create yet another package archive? With a separate publishing mechanism?

> Besides, most core packages don't need any elaborate setup, you just
> drop them in and restart Emacs.

"Just drop them in" doesn't address the issue of package updates, not in 
the slightest.

> How will that change if we move them outside Emacs?  It's not like
> there's some magic at ELPA that just putting a package there magically
> resolves all these issues.  And if someone will have to work on that,
> she can do that without moving the package aside.

They will be forced to declare the required Emacs version, for one. And 
abide by it.

But yes, that's also possible to do inside the Emacs repo.

> > There were different suggestions, with different degrees between "let's
> > move Org and Gnus out" and "let's move everything out".
>
> I didn't see any.

All right, then. Let me make one right now: let's move out Org, Gnus and 
CEDET. And consider doing that with any other big codebase that's also 
maintained separately (Calc comes to mind).

There have been objections to doing that for each of these packages, but 
there you go. Suggestion made.