Re: ELPA policy

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/09/2015 06:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Create yet another package archive? With a separate publishing mechanism?
>
> Why not?  There are several already, no?

So far, it seems we're short of manpower to manage even the current one. 
To manage the infrastructure, improve the scripts, etc.

> It does, for most of the core.  That's what you do each time you say
> "git pull", I believe.

I cannot "git pull" a new version of Dired into my stable installation 
of Emacs 24.5.

> It was made before -- that's the "let's move Org and Gnus out"
> variant, to which I said I could easily agree.  And then there was the
> "move everything" one, to which I object for the reasons stated.  What
> I meant was that there was no 3rd variant, AFAIR.

Well, I enumerated 4 packages instead of 2, didn't I? :)

I agree that "move everything" is a non-starter (or very hard, at 
least). So it seems more like a red herring, there's no real use arguing 
against it.