From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: hierarchy Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 10:27:54 +0300 Message-ID: <834lqtc64l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sheh8wuv.fsf@cassou.me> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508570897 26459 195.159.176.226 (21 Oct 2017 07:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Damien Cassou , John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 21 09:28:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e5oCW-0005i0-KX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56954 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5oCd-0006b8-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5oCW-0006b2-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5oCV-0005C1-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5oCP-0005Aa-EA; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3435 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e5oCO-0001M8-Ny; Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:28:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sheh8wuv.fsf@cassou.me> (message from Damien Cassou on Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:15:04 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219662 Archived-At: > From: Damien Cassou > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:15:04 +0200 > > I would like to add my package 'hierarchy', a library to create and > display hierarchy structures, to ELPA. The hierarchy library has already > been used to implement a json navigator and a Javascript class hierarchy > navigator. > > I wrote a blog post describing it on Nicolas' blog: > https://emacs.cafe/emacs/guest-post/2017/06/26/hierarchy.html. > > My motivation for proposing this library to ELPA (instead of MELPA where > all my other packages are published) is that some developers might want > to have their hierarchy-dependent package on ELPA. Also, phil-s asked me > to do it: https://github.com/DamienCassou/hierarchy/issues/48. > > I propose to put the single-file package hierarchy.el in ELPA and to > keep maintaining the project in a separate repository. I decided to > avoid using subtree or externals because my unit-test file (which is not > included here) depends on buttercup which is not on ELPA. How about adding this to Emacs core instead? I think built-in capabilities such as these are long overdue, and Emacs should offer such basics out of the box.