Uwe Brauer via Discussion list for AUCTeX developers <auctex-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>> - There's also a completely different alternative: make the >> externals/elpa the new "main" branch and drop master and tarball >> releases altogether. Is there still a justification for having >> them? I mean, we dropped XEmacs support anyway and it should be >> easy enough for distros to just use the ELPA tarballs as basis for >> their distro packages. > > Just to be sure. > For any of these two proposals: > > It would be still possible to pull (fetch) and compile auctex > independently of emacs? Yes, although I'd recommend to use the ELPA-devel package which would automatically be built for every new commit so that you don't have to hassle with pulling and building yourself. For example, I use some packages from the ELPA devel archive like so: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu-devel" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/") t) (setopt package-archive-priorities '(("gnu" . 10) ("nongnu" . 10) ("melpa" . 10) ;; Lower priority because I want to explicitly define for a single ;; package that this archive is to be used by pinning it there. ("gnu-devel" . 0))) (use-package ef-themes :ensure t ;; Use the bleeding-edge package from gnu-devel instead of the ;; released version from the gnu ELPA archive. :pin gnu-devel ...) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Bye, Tassilo