Re: Magit

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> Actually, in a sense it's pretty easy: just make an exception for the
>> rule that all code needs to have its copyright assigned to the FSF.
>
> Sounds good to me, FWIW.
>
>> But even if we do make such an exception, having a copy of Magit in
>> `emacs.git` would add extra maintenance burden to keep that copy in sync
>> with the one maintained elsewhere.  So for administrative reasons, it's
>> probably preferable to keep it outside of `emacs.git`.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the objection.  Is it not just a question of
> popping something like this in a shell script that runs every N days:
>
>   git clone <MAGIT-URL> magit
>   cp magit/*.el lisp/magit
>   rm -rf magit
>   git commit -a -m "; Auto-update Magit"
>   git push

Yeah, I also think it isn't a too big problem.  I also think we should
take the portable packages (i.e. the packages which don't depend on
Emacs internals, e.g. term, artist, comint (maybe), doctor) out of the
main Emacs repository and make them available through GNU ELPA (while
still keeping a copy in main Emacs repository).  That way Emacs 28.1
users (and possibly Emacs 27.2 users) will get the latest updates to
those packages.

>
> If we want to be a bit more conservative, we have code in NonGNU ELPA to
> check out the latest tagged package version.

The last time I checked, the Magit version hosted on NonGNU ELPA was
completely broken.

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