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

[Stefan Monnier]

> One thing I recently noticed are :url entries of the form
>
>     "bzr::https://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/org-edna-el";
>
> or
>
>     "hg::https://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/enwc/";
>
> How are these handled?  I couldn't find anything specific to this in
> elpa-admin.el.  Is this a Git feature?

Yes, it's a Git feature.  Git will use the `git-remote-FOO` extension to
access those repositories.  In my experience it tends not to work super
reliably and those extensions aren't installed in `elpa.gnu.org` so we
don't auto-update from those repositories.


        Stefan