Re: Stability of core packages (was: Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:50:12 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:57 PM Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Stable: the version of a package included in the latest Emacs tarball
> > * Latest: the latest version on GNU ELPA (etc)
> > * Devel: the latest version on GNU-devel ELPA (etc)
> >
> > You could possibly add:
> >
> > * Core(?): the version of a package included in the tarball of the
> > user's *current* Emacs installation
> 
> These are interesting levels, but I was under the impression
> that the goal is to partition the set of :core packages according
> to some kind of gradation, what Eli called "stability gradation".
> The set can be found in the variable package--builtins.

No you've misunderstood what I mean by "stability gradation".  It has
nothing to do with the value of package--builtins, even when that is
non-nil.