Re: High time to think about releasing 22.0
* Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Steve Youngs <steve(a)youngs.au.com> writes:
> * Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > [13] Packages-in-source distribution. (I have a ws)
>
> If it is just EFS and xemacs-base -- good.
probably dired too.
Not needed to bootstrap PUI.
> > [14] Non-EFS backend (TRAMP, HTTP) for package-get. (Steve
Y, maybe?)
>
> Bad, crazy, stupid, waste of time.
Sounds like you're really excited to to it.
I spent some considerable time doing just this. It is how I know that
it shouldn't be done.
Tramp I don't know,
Yes. Tramp doesn't buy us anything where PUI is concerned. We'd just
only be adding dependencies to PUI. We'd be in a worse situation than
we are now.
but HTTP is definitely on my wishlist to remove the EFS dependency
and hairiness of ftp in general.
Well keep on wishing, because for all of the mirrors that don't have a
web server listening or don't have a web server listening in the right
place you will still need EFS (or any other FTP solution).
This is the case for the vast majority of our package mirrors.
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