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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Write a new package" culture instead of patches?
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 05:22:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgfy9e43.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bGBWVHi_GT-ArPX8pg7zFD-lnGE1Zs54gSKO8ku9yZD0s9v0vuokGUEMk3w7TMyGoztfjRaZdZMqWjq3LLLZh8hclfAji9mLbZREiVbPDXE=@protonmail.com> (message from ndame on Sun, 17 May 2020 19:43:54 +0000)

> Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 19:43:54 +0000
> From: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>
> Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> >
> > But MELPA asks you to jump through a different set of hoops, which
> > seems to fly in the face of your theory.
> 
> You mean setting up MELPA access?

No, I mean the MELPA contribution requirements.  I'm talking about
those who provide packages, not those who use them.  Using packages
from ELPA doesn't require any jumps.

> So Emacs/ELPA should provide a good use case which MELPA can't provide. The only thing I know is if there is no internet connection then packages are available locally, but I don't know how typical that is.

No, the use case is that ELPA has higher quality code that never
promotes or uses proprietary software.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-17 19:25 "Write a new package" culture instead of patches? ndame
2020-05-17 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 19:43   ` ndame
2020-05-18  2:22     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-17 19:48   ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 19:58   ` ndame
2020-05-18  5:41     ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-18 14:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-18 15:22         ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-05-18 16:33           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 17:30             ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-05-18 17:50               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-18 19:17                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 19:31                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-18 20:13                 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-05-18 21:23                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-18 19:35               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 20:17                 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-05-18 20:38                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-20  4:01                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 21:12                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-18 15:57         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-18 16:22           ` Stefan Kangas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-11 16:41 dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs] Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-11 17:12 ` 조성빈
2020-05-12  3:16   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-12  3:55     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-13  3:57       ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-13 12:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-14  5:10           ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-14 13:44             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-17  2:53               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-17 13:01                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 13:38                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 14:24                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 18:27                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 18:52                         ` "Write a new package" culture instead of patches? Stefan Kangas
2020-05-17 19:42                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 22:14                             ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-17 22:44                               ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 23:13                               ` chad
2020-05-17 23:22                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-18  1:31                                   ` João Távora
2020-05-18  1:55                                   ` Tim Cross
2020-05-19  3:51                                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-19  3:51                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-19  4:33                                 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-17 21:14                           ` Alan Third
2020-05-17 22:02                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-18  7:58                               ` tomas
2020-05-18 12:08                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-18 12:26                                   ` tomas
2020-05-18 23:07                                     ` arthur miller
2020-05-19  7:27                                       ` tomas
2020-05-17 21:51                           ` Matthias Meulien

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