Re: Org-mode release 7.9

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> 1.  There is no need to do download and M-x package-install-file RET if
>     the publishing server has a `archive-contents' file.
>
>     Org's daily tars are already pushed to Orgmode.org and then later
>     pulled by GNU's ELPA servers.
>
>     So only thing needed is a public URL on Orgmode.org for package tars
>     and an archive-contents.
>
> 2.  IMO, packages destined for Emacs are much more valuable than those
>     that lie in githubs and bitbuckets.
>
>     Why is there a hesitation to bundle org-export.el and org-e-*.el
>     (written by me and Ngz) in to it's own ELPA package or ship it along
>     with daily tars.
>
> 3. There is a `package-upload-file' from package-x.el that can upload
>    make-produced-tar and *also* update `archive-contents' with the new
>    version.
>
> All of 1, 2 and 3 is available my ELPA makefile changes in
> org-jambu.git.
>

Maybe if you could share individual diffs from your git branch which add
Makefile targets to:
- bundle org-export and org-e-*.el ELPA packages
- update package-upload-file
- bundle an org+contrib ELPA package (if you have this implemented)

then this functionality could be more easily folded into the master
branch.

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Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte