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: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:26:50 +0400 Message-ID: <508D950A.30704@yandex.ru> 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 1351456016 23067 80.91.229.3 (28 Oct 2012 20:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: dan@haxney.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 28 21:27:05 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 1TSZRn-0001cN-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:27:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSZRf-0007ch-DO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSZRd-0007cR-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSZRb-0004Lu-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from forward8.mail.yandex.net ([77.88.61.38]:45110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSZRb-0004Ll-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp9.mail.yandex.net (smtp9.mail.yandex.net [77.88.61.35]) by forward8.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id AE0B8F6179E; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:26:47 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from smtp9.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp9.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 898FB152033A; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:26:47 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from 5x166x242x229.dynamic.spb.ertelecom.ru (5x166x242x229.dynamic.spb.ertelecom.ru [5.166.242.229]) by smtp9.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id QlL8Sh3n-QlLqgaVs; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:26:47 +0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1351456007; bh=ec1dHkhD2gMsD4ClB0iRPGwCJVnNHcMDmHM+6ycR844=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=O1+lUeFpqfqq/jwMNnETmjpNHKI5OZx3g4va7P25EcBhneNFuBEbqYXSMjI57cNZU ywFwPnmX2r5VXnFJfD0paXjt/HJHZw6HcB8DhBpDhrwdQoE97Hnqnc+MDe8QWfYKMY Q8JFoNR0upznKlMQURGs9WUTZmfYSxrKWlBH7b8Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 77.88.61.38 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:154565 Archived-At: Daniel Hackney writes: > Dmitry Gutov wrote: >> Tassilo Horn writes: >> > 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. > > The problem is with those repos. They don't create a > -readme.txt file. It's particularly strange for Marmalade, > since the content which would go into the readme is displayed on the > website (though not in 
 formatting) but isn't available through
 > `list-packages'.

Indeed. And there's been an issue filed on Marmalade's bug tracker for
close to a year now (#36).

I think I will take a stab at fixing this for MELPA.

 >> I think it's fixed in Daniel Haxney's package.el fork, though.
 >
 > Sorry for the confusion (my choice of domain could be clearer), but my
 > last name is "Hackney", not "Haxney". The domain name "haxney.org" is a
 > play on "hacks" => "hax" (sometimes used in videogame-speak) and
 > "Hackney". Also, the username "haxney" is available on every service I
 > have ever come across.

That's my fault, sorry.

 > I was careful not to make any changes to the HTTP and file-based APIs in
 > my branch, so if a repo doesn't provide a readme, then my branch can't
 > do anything about that.

Sorry again, duh.

--Dmitry