>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> writes:
LI> I'm massively unenthusiastic about this future. Things in ELPA has to be LI> backwards-and-forwards compatible with a wide Emacs version range, which LI> makes maintaining things much more work. When you develop things in "Emacs LI> core", you have one specific target and can make large internal changes LI> without these considerations. So far, all of these arguments against a tighter development integration with ELPA have been predicated on the way that ELPA is used today. ELPA is under our control; we can adjust our process to suit the needs of Emacs development. LI> Emacs doesn't seem to have a massive surfeit of developers, so I wonder LI> where this plan comes from. It comes from the desire to decouple the development of large, mostly external projects, from core Emacs. They don't belong in Emacs.git. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
