Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: popon, corfu-terminal, flymake-popon

[Philip Kaludercic]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>>
>>>> I will wait a day or something like that before pushing the changes,
>>>> in case someone has objections or comments.
>>>
>>> Just a question, how do I format tag names so that it is recognized as a
>>> stable version?
>>
>> ELPA does not use tags to indicate new releases, but instead interprets
>> any commit that increases the version header (see Info node `(elisp)
>> Library Headers') according to `version-list-<'.
>>
>
> Great, that is a better approach than tags, while being VCS independent.

Theoretically yes, but the ELPA build system depends heavily on Git.  A
different advantage is that you can download a package from source and
M-x package-install-file or M-x package-install-from-buffer it.