Re: Adding packages to ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:00:45 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:44:35 -0400
> >> 
> >> - GNU ELPA packages can be released on their own schedule.
> >
> > Same is true if they are in the Emacs repository.
> 
> I have been releasing bug fix versions of Ada mode 5.x once per month
> for a while now; they are immediately available to ELPA package users of
> any Emacs version. 
> 
> Emacs releases are once every 2 years at best.
> 
> This is obvious, so I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to
> say. Perhaps we have different definitions of "release"?

What I meant is no one said you need to wait for an Emacs release to
release a package.  The Emacs repository is a public one, like the
ELPA repository.  So I don't see a difference, really.