Re: Moving Gnus development to Emacs?

[CHENG Gao]

*On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:43:06 +0100
* Also sprach Michael Albinus <address@hidden>:

> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> No objections from me (I'm currently doing the same for CEDET, for
>> pretty much the same reasons), but just to clarify: this means that
>> we only care about the current Emacs version and do not do separate
>> releases anymore? I'm mostly worried about how this will affect the
>> T-shirt release process.
>
> Tramp will also remove the XEmacs compat code (and the compat code for
> Emacs 22, to be precise). But the development will still be outside
> Emacs, in order to support older Emacsen but master, and in order to
> release more frequently than Emacs. One idea is to add Tramp also to
> ELPA, as subtree. People could get than a newer version of Tramp than
> the built-in.

John talked about new trend to move more codes into ELPA.
Maybe it's THE RIGHT WAY, to make emacs as emacs-core (with only bare
functions) and all others packges (core as ELPA, third party as Melpa
etc, or even PPA). If package.el becomes APT like, that'll be cool,
really cool.