Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[Po Lu]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> You are confusing two different things: distros which distribute
> binaries to end-users (Debian and others) and source code
> repositories.  The Rust repository crates.io is in the latter
> category, just like sr.ht for example, which allows non-free licenses
> and is nonetheless "good enough to recommend".

The distinction is between package repositories which distribute
software for use, and services which merely provide storage to users.

If sr.ht were being used as a package archive, the same objections would
be applied to it.

> Richard started this subthread here, and asked to be corrected.

Richard asked for information regarding Cargo, so he could evaluate
whether or not Emacs should integrate with it.