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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20/04/2023 18:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:30:47 +0300
> > Cc:joaotavora@gmail.com,emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >
> > When you say "keeping core packages only on ELPA", what do you mean exactly?
> That core packages will be only in elpa.git, not in emacs.git.  Then
> we'd "bundle" them with Emacs when preparing the release tarballs.

Okay then, though I'd call them just "bundled" packages from that point. 
Since "core" is an ELPA term for packages developed inside emacs.git.

That separation could also be considered a win, saving time for some of 
the developers. Which could make up for the extra overhead with managing 
stable tags.

> I believe this is a long-term plan wrt core packages.  It was even
> discussed a couple of times here.

Note that to do the above, we don't really have to implement this stuff 
as a feature in Emacs (as a UI in package.el), or in elpa-admin. At 
least not right away.

As long as we've agreed on a principle to choose releases to tag as 
stable, we could just write those git revision down somewhere (using git 
tags, or some text file in the Emacs repo, or a text file on a server 
somewhere, ...). And then use that info when bundling the packages.