Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net> writes: >> My question is/are: (1) Why Org is developed outside Emacs, given that >> it is a core/built-in package. (2) Are there other packages that follow >> the same process? > > AFAIK also cc-mode is developed in a dedicate repository. > > From an Emacs development point of view there is the desire to move more > packages that are now included in the core to ELPA and assemble Emacs > releases from these. This will allow packages to have independent > releases and users to update them more frequently than the pace of Emacs > releases. In this process, moving more packages to separate git > repositories would be natural. Thus, the idea would be remove the need > for syncing the org and cc-mode codebases to the Emacs repository rather > than moving the development of these packages to the Emacs git.
Yes. This seems to be a good direction. The news about new elpa.git is really good. Probably that will settle all these things.
