Re: Release Org 9.4.2

[Pankaj Jangid]

Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@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.