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Re: On Contributing To Emacs
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Stefan Kangas |
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Re: On Contributing To Emacs |
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Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:50:02 -0500 |
xenodasein@tutanota.de writes:
> What is a "core package?" Never seen that term inside Emacs before.
> Is package.el one? If it was on ELPA, what would install it?
If I'm not mistaken, it is only documented in the elpa.git README:
** =:core FILES=
This property has to come first.
Indicates that this is a special package which will be built by extracting
files directly from Emacs's source code. For this to work, the Emacs
source code should be available in the =emacs= subdirectory.
FILES specifies the files that will be contained in the generated tarballs.
It can be a single file name or a list of file names.
FWIW, I suggested adding something about this to CONTRIBUTE, but the
idea was rejected.