Re: The place for the "ELPA bundling" project

[Philip Kaludercic]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> I've tried to find the bug number, or a specific emacs-devel
> discussion, that would contain the existing knowledge and some hint of
> the current state. And failed.
>
> Could somebody give me the link I could post in public? Both to refer
> to that potential feature, and to invite people to help out.

Eli send me this <83zg27emh8.fsf@gnu.org>, or if you cannot resolve it,
here is the copied text:

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> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 06:10:17 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It is indeed planned to do that only with packages on GNU ELPA.  But
> > we haven't yet figured some important aspects of including ELPA
> > packages in release tarballs, so the idea is there, but it is not yet
> > actionable.
> 
> I was under the assumption that issue was resolved, if
> `package-directory-list' would contain the right directory?

That's not the only issue we need to resolve.  See

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-12/msg00917.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg01017.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg01373.html

for the previous discussions, where the issues were raised and
discussed.
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