Re: Adding the `prescient` packages to NonGNU ELPA?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> E.g. I can't see a clean way to install `git-commit` directly from its
>> VCS (i.e. recognized by `package-activate-all` and running from the Git
>> clone) without either forcing the install of `magit` at the same
>> time(&place) and/or having side-effects like sometimes shadowing another
>> installation of `magit`.
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> This is an unusual, and in a sense extreme, example.

FWIW, I have no idea whether it's usual or not and what's its history.

> Prescient is a much more typical example,

I don't know in which way the situation is different for Prescient.

> git-commit/magit also has an unpleasant backstory.  I can tell you about
> that in a private message.  All I'll say here is that I did not actually
> want to add git-commit to magit but the behavior of its author forced me
> to accept the offer to take over as maintainer.  At the time it seemed
> best to do that by adding it to the magit repository.

But that makes no difference to the problem at hand: by being in the
same directory as the other `magit` files, you can't add it to
`load-path` without adding those other files as well.

> On the other hand, I have some doubts this is actually going to benefit
> anyone.  Is there anyone out there who does use git-commit but not magit?

This cuts both ways: if they're always installed in pair, why not keep
them as a single package?


        Stefan