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Re: Experimental features
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Experimental features |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:07:09 -0400 |
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>> I like the idea. Maybe the package manager discussed before
>> could come in to help here too?
> Oh, no, please! Let's not drag this into it, OK?
> it can't be helped.
Oh, yes, it can. We did not need a package manager to introduce the notion
of "obsolete" features. Similarly we do not need a package manager to
introduce the notion of "experimental" features.
Furthermore feature!=package.
I guess it's all my fault. I should have sent a patch rather than just
text, that was stupid of me.
People are thinking of a bug package manager, when I'm just thinking of
a minor change to autoload.el plus a custom variable (together with
an adjustment of policy w.r.t minor releases).
Stefan