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: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:50:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83k34vyaid.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> <85iokiffiq.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83a95uz2is.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq8wm6ps.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411397509 11537 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2014 14:51:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 22 16:51:43 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 1XW4xn-0006Cq-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:51:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XW4xn-0007m9-7N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XW4xQ-0007ea-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XW4xF-0004fH-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:43229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XW4xE-0004eq-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NCB00M004TCXG00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:46:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NCB00DQ850OQ990@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:46:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87wq8wm6ps.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:174650 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: Stephen Leake , > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:53:35 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> This is obvious, so I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to > >> say. Perhaps we have different definitions of "release"? > > > > What I meant is no one said you need to wait for an Emacs release to > > release a package. The Emacs repository is a public one, like the > > ELPA repository. So I don't see a difference, really. > > > Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by Emacs repo the difference > is that the emacs repo has a developer front end (bzr or git) which ELPA > has a user front end (package.el). package.el is customizable wrt to where it looks for packages, so its front end is not specific to ELPA. If you mean that the Emacs repository lacks the HTTP front end such as http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ provides, then setting that up should be easy. However, I'm not holding my breath, given the unanimously negative reaction to my suggestions.