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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
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/07
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/07
- Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Amin Bandali, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs,
Fu Yuan <=
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/10