Re: Tramp as ELPA package

[Stephen Leake]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If people edit ada-mode in elpa, I have to copy the edits back to my
>> devel tree; I suspect that is Michael's main complaint. Uploading a
>> package archive to elpa, rather than source files, prevents that.
>
> Yes.
>
>> That seems like a reasonable work flow. It does violate the principle
>> that elpa packages be editable by emacs maintainers; they are reduced to
>> deleting the package if they see a serious problem (as opposed to fixing
>> the problem).
>
> Tramp lives also in Emacs' master, so that problem looks less hurting
> for Tramp.

There's supposed to be a way to take code in Emacs git master and make
it an ELPA package automatically (a "core ELPA package"); is that
working yet? Or is the other way around? Either way, there should be
only one copy, either in emacs git master or elpa git master.

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-- Stephe