Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Stefan Kangas]

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.