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Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipu


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:25:05 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:52:31 +0100
> 
>     Eli> I will note that this is going where XEmacs was before, and I
>     Eli> don't think the result was encouraging, FWIW.
> 
> Back when I still used XEmacs, downloading the 'sumo' tarball with all
> the packages was the second step Iʼd perform after downloading the
> sources, so in practice splitting them out didnʼt do much for me.

That's what I meant: any serious user always wanted the sumo tarball.

> OTOH I donʼt think XEmacs ever had anything like elpa.

I'm not sure this matters.  Downloading files was possible then as
well, albeit more manually.  And XEmacs did have a package system.

> BTW, I may have missed part of the discussion, but why do we need two
> tar balls?

Because not everyone is on-line all the time.



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