Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Stefan Kangas]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> I have been thinking implementing something like this, where package.el
> could handle a
>
>       ;; VC: https://source.com/package.git
>
> like header that would indicate where the source code for a package was
> being managed and could be downloaded and prepared (autoload, load-path
> overriding the default package, ...) when requested.

It would be very useful if package.el could be extended in this way.

I also think we should have the capability to just point it at a git
repository and install it as a package, just as straight.el does.  That
way, you wouldn't need support from an upstream that needs to add some
headers.

> Building on or in parallel to this, a mechanism to simplify the sending
> of patches to the author or friends would also be a good thing to have.

Yup.