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From: | Phillip Lord |
Subject: | Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal) |
Date: | Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:53:13 +0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes: > The centralization isn't really a problem right now you think. But I bet > it is. You're making people work inside a source tree that doesn't > belong to them and you're constraining the technical content they put > there. > > You're also inviting people to break the Makefile because they want > their own build. > > You're also inviting people to check in non-working code. > > You might say "these things have not happened yet". But that's because > there are very few ELPA authors so far. Maybe one of the reasons there > are so few ELPA authors is that it's weird. There is some truth in this. I feel rather more nervous commting into ELPA because it contains so many pieces of work from others. With my own repo's, that's fine. If I screw things up, then it's my problem.
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