On 04/15/2016 11:10 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
>    > On 04/15/2016 05:46 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
>    > A quick look at git://git.code.sf.net/p/matlab-emacs/src suggests that
>    > you don't have a matlab-pkg.el. See
>    > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Multi_002dfile-Packages.html
>    > for more info on that.
> 
> Thanks. That site you mention also talks about generating a tar file,
> but this is ELPA specific, no?

Not really; it's specific to the distribution part, which you don't care about. From the metadata in the headers (for single-file packages) or in …-pkg.el (for multi-file packages) MELPA will build a tar files that users download through package.el.

Cheers,
Clément