From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to distribute dynamic modules by themselves?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:53:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1CD02B14-06CC-4D8F-8CC0-A9C214FA2AED@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nXadN-0005Ta-1W@fencepost.gnu.org>
> On Mar 24, 2022, at 8:29 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
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>
>> Just a thought, can I put pre-built modules on ELPA
>
> Do you mean, the dynamic module itself? Which machines would you
> build it for? Which systems? I worry that you'd be undertaking
> a task that could expand without bounds.
Only machines that I have access for, in the spirit of “provided as is”. I’m certainly not capable of providing binary modules for all systems Emacs runs on.
>
> so others can
>> download the module and require it by writing some boilerplate
>> code? Just like what I would distribute the module through GitHub
>> release.
>
> Github is a bad choice, for moral reasons -- see
> https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html for
> explanation of why. How about choosing a better repo?
I’m aware of GitHub’s issues, but…
Yuan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-25 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-20 23:51 How to distribute dynamic modules by themselves? Yuan Fu
2022-03-21 1:31 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-03-22 5:07 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-22 8:44 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-03-23 3:55 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-23 19:44 ` Yuan Fu
2022-03-25 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-23 11:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-23 19:48 ` Yuan Fu
2022-03-25 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-25 5:53 ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2022-03-27 5:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-27 5:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-23 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-23 22:30 ` Ergus
2022-03-24 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
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