Re: Operation "Fat Emacs"

Philip Kaludercic [02/Sep  4:09pm GMT] wrote:
> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic [28/Aug  4:00pm GMT] wrote:
>>> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ernesto CENUSA [28/Aug  3:29pm +02] wrote:
>>>>> And as you said, the two could still share some of the same technical
>>>>> groundwork. So I was wondering where things stand on that side for
>>>>> “Fat Emacs”, and whether there is anything a newcomer could usefully
>>>>> do to help.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your interest.  I don't think we want to commit resources to
>>>> this at the time being, and as a newcomer you'd need a lot of guidance.
>>>
>>> Actually, I think that adding Version and Package-Requires headers to
>>> files around emacs.git is a very newcomer friendly task, isn't it not?
>>
>> Is that really something we want?
>
> I don't see any harm in making the dependencies between modules
> explicit.  Then again, since these are all inside of Emacs we could
> probably automate it by analyzing all function calls when we want to add
> a package to ELPA.

It seems like information that would easily get out-of-date.  In
addition, Version doesn't make sense.

-- 
Sean Whitton