From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA visibility Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:47:33 +0400 Message-ID: <5089B375.1070805@yandex.ru> References: <5089ADBA.5050504@yandex.ru> <34560B5B82784480A5C0D120CCBA4D8B@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351201658 20936 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2012 21:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 23:47:46 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 1TRVHF-0004o1-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:47:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRVH7-0006lK-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRVH4-0006lD-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRVH2-0006ol-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from forward2.mail.yandex.net ([77.88.46.7]:43258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRVH2-0006oS-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp1.mail.yandex.net (smtp1.mail.yandex.net [77.88.46.101]) by forward2.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 5452612A1D09; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:47:30 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from smtp1.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 0BC12AA03BC; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:47:30 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from 5x166x242x229.dynamic.spb.ertelecom.ru (5x166x242x229.dynamic.spb.ertelecom.ru [5.166.242.229]) by smtp1.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id lTPaxekc-lTPmgq3W; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:47:29 +0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1351201649; bh=MfPgRuhFgHUiJZ/VCExiIk6RhZ4gr3v9050NS9Ubz90=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=mt6/y0iYl9OzpQUcXzVthtcwXfisuMf7OgC8NiP4ayiHcM7sASHVWx0XTJn7E13t/ 1chS5QQ8dFEBB2CJBQLfMhJVE5HvuFI6rShfGozWUwuIGwUEWEKd+O0egDPZrKwWGG 8DVrSwqFNyM7ZUhG/ldLfw9G2ywHEGfVk8bwvL7A= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <34560B5B82784480A5C0D120CCBA4D8B@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 77.88.46.7 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:154514 Archived-At: On 26.10.2012 1:34, Drew Adams wrote: >> > 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. You could have checked the issue tracker: https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/issues/7 >> 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 You can choose not to upgrade at any given point in time, but the repository always shows the latest, so to speak, "nightly" versions. > it off (?)), but is that feature even available for GNU Elpa? AFAIK, ELPA just builds off a single branch in a single repository. That's automatic, but for each package where Emacs Bazaar repo is not the canonical source, the changes need to pushed to it manually.