From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: GNU ELPA visibility Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:34:40 -0700 Message-ID: <34560B5B82784480A5C0D120CCBA4D8B@us.oracle.com> References: <5089ADBA.5050504@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351200899 14476 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2012 21:34:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Dmitry Gutov'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 23:35:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TRV4w-0004fg-K8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54266 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRV4o-0001Pt-LX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRV4k-0001P6-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRV4g-0002z6-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:21463) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRV4g-0002xV-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q9PLYgLh017844 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:34:43 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9PLYgmM023874 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:34:42 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt101.oracle.com (abhmt101.oracle.com [141.146.116.53]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q9PLYfs6015766; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.248) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:34:41 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <5089ADBA.5050504@yandex.ru> Thread-Index: Ac2y9u4aGxq28Q34T2CMFdK58FLimwAACZ4Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154513 Archived-At: > > I vote for including more by default in `package-archives'. > > > > In particular, include ("melpa" . > > "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"). That might not be > > the blessed, "canonical" archive site, but it is certainly > > one of the most used and most useful. > > Maybe after they implement the feature "stable packages from tags"? You'll have to take that up with Milkypostman. I know nothing about it. > It really is the most useful repository, though. And the only > one still actively maintained, among alternative repos. AFAIK, it also has the advantage of being automatically updated from its upstream sources. That's a great feature. I imagine that automatic updating is configurable on MELPA (i.e., you can turn it off (?)), but is that feature even available for GNU Elpa?