From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding packages to ELPA Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:23:32 +0300 Message-ID: <838ulez2ez.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87sijqxzr2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <877g11c8wh.fsf@gmx.us> <83fvfo15z7.fsf@gnu.org> <8361gj20h7.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjdvzmd5.fsf@gnu.org> <83tx43zfep.fsf@gnu.org> <85egv6ff4k.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411230267 21292 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2014 16:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 18:24:16 2014 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 1XVNSB-0008Lv-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNSB-0007ei-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNS2-0007eQ-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNRw-0001YB-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:55869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVNRv-0001X2-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NC700200K64SV00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:23:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NC70023FK7LAR80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:23:45 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85egv6ff4k.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:174586 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:09:15 -0500 > > > No, I mean that a package that is part of Emacs can be used to create > > a separate tarball disregarding the rest of Emacs. After all, once > > you checkout the repo, they are just file in a certain directory. > > How would the typical Emacs/ELPA user use that "separate tarball"? > > Currently, to release a new version of Ada mode, I just update the elpa > repository, incrementing the version in ada-mode.el header. > > Then users will see the new version when they next do 'list-packages', > and can install from there. > > What would that process look like if I followed your approach? The same. If you are saying that list-packages currently doesn't support the Emacs repo, we should modify it so it does. It's just another repo, after all, there's nothing magic about it.