Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS

[Richard Stallman]

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If the main purpose of this feature is for people to test, debug and
develop the development version, I think it is wiser not to speak
of "installing" from VCS.

Presenting the feature as a way to "install" would encourage people
who are not really thinking of testing, debugging or developping the
package, and motivated only by a vague wish for "the latest thing."

I suggest that we are better off if we avoid encouraging them.

One way to avoid that is to have this feature simply check out the
package's development sources.  If you know how to work with Emacs
Lisp, you will not find it hard to byte compile that and use it.  We
can even document the natural ways to proceed and do those things, and
people who are really prepared to test it will do them.  But newbies
probably won't go that far.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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