Re: GNU ELPA visibility

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

 > Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com> writes:
 >
 >>> When looking for an Elisp package or feature, most people reach for
 >>> their browser before reaching for M-x list-packages.  But packages
 >>> distributed via GNU ELPA won't show up because they're not visible to
 >>> search engines.
 >>
 >> I think it's very likely that M-x list-packages will get much more
 >> common as time progresses. It's certainly the first thing that I go to
 >> nowadays.
 >
 > Ditto, but the package explanations given there are far from informative
 > enough to find the package you need for your task at hand.  I look there
 > first, but then google up the packages that sound relevant, and in the
 > end that almost always leads to emacswiki.
 >
 > It would be good if every package would at least complement Version and
 > Summary with a longer description, a link to its homepage (or emacswiki
 > page if it has no homepage), and the date when it was updated the last
 > time.

You may find that, for single-file packages, even if they provide an
extended "Commentary" section, it will not show up in the
"list-packages" interface. At least when distributed over MELPA or
Marmalade.

I think it's fixed in Daniel Haxney's package.el fork, though.

Showing a link to the homepage (taken from the "URL" header) would be a
welcome addition to the interface, too.

--Dmitry