Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > >> The effort spent on it should have both improved existing package.el
>   > >> and also add straight.el like functionality to it.  Whether it is all
>   > >> under feature 'package or multiple features.
>
> This discussion is about "straight.el-like functionality".
> Would someone please describe that functionality?

straight.el is an alternative package manager that for the purposes of
this thread clones a Git repository directly instead of fetching the
package contents from a package archive like ELPA.  I believe it does a
bit more along the lines of functional package managers like Nix and
Guix, but I haven't used it myself to be able to say what difference it
makes.

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        Philip Kaludercic