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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs


From: Fu Yuan
Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 22:28:57 -0400

> 在 2020年5月8日,下午6:35,Amin Bandali <address@hidden> 写道:
> 
> João Távora <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 7:54 PM Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> After thinking about that for a while, I came to the sad conclusion
>>> that I no longer understand what is the relation between GNU ELPA and
>>> the Emacs project.
>> 
>> GNU ELPA distributes some Emacs source files as :core-type
>> package.el packages.  This means that we can fix bugs and evolve
>> features in those files in Emacs master and not having to wait many
>> months until they make into the next core release.  This has proven
>> invaluable for the development of Eglot, a GNU ELPA package, which
>> depends on jsonrpc.el and flymake.el, which are in the core.  Bugs
>> can often be fixed in those files and they'll be available to users the
>> next day.  I don't know if this counts as a meaningful relationship,
>> but it is  extremely useful nonetheless and we should expand it (in
>> fact I discussed it with Dmitry and Stefan I'm going to do it soon for
>> eldoc.el, xref.el and project.el).
>> 
>> João
> 
> +1.  And I'm hoping to have ERC added to the above list very soon.

That’s a fine idea. But if we move core packages out into ELPA and a I install 
it using a lower version of Emacs. Which package will be loaded? The ELPA 
version or the built-in version?

Yuan


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