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Re: ELPA policy


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: ELPA policy
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:28:26 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

>>>>> Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> ELPA packages that other core code depends on (like CEDET; xref uses it -
> called "core ELPA packages" hereinafter) have to be in every developer's
> build environment everyday; the other core code has to see the current
> version of the package, and it has to be the same for every developer.
> 
> If core ELPA packages are in the ELPA git repository, you would copy some
> subtrees of the ELPA git workspace into the Emacs git workspace. People have
> looked into doing this, but it gets messy and confusing. "git fetch" is
> dealing with two upstreams for one workspace. There has been talk about git
> submodules, etc, but nothing concrete.

Elpa.git should be a submodule referenced from within Emacs.git (under "elpa").
This allows us to expressly state which "version" of Elpa is expected to work
with the current Emacs.git.

Large packages like CEDET should move outside of Emacs.git and into Elpa.git.
If xref.el depends on CEDET, it would move to Elpa.git as well.

> If we use the approach of keeping core ELPA packages in the Emacs git
> repository, there is _zero_ friction for the current core Emacs developers;
> the only change is in the ELPA config scripts.

I do not want this code replication. We will promote ELPA as an active
development space alongside core Emacs. If we use a submodule, and improve our
tooling slightly, it should become a seamless thing.

John



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