From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Adam <adam.niederer@gmail.com>, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Subject: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 03:25:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y20mpiox.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsfqxosqz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:11:54 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Adam [2022-03-31 23:28:15] wrote:
>> On 3/31/22 08:48, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> AFAIK the users *should* already be able to see the
>>> README if they use a recent enough Emacs.
>>> IOW if that doesn't work, please file a bug report.
>> Is this something that is exclusive to ELPA?
>
> No.
>
>> I am able to view READMEs of certain ELPA packages, but no packages
>> from MELPA (including elquery) have READMEs available locally, on
>> 29.0.50.
>
> To view the README, it has to be included in the tarball, so it will
> depend on the MELPA recipe.
Currently, package-menu-describe-package (bound to '?' in *Packages*)
assumes that the README is available locally if the package is
installed. That could be relaxed; it could fetch it from the repository
if not found locally.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-03 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-28 3:58 [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph Adam
2022-03-28 6:59 ` Visuwesh
2022-03-28 17:21 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-29 1:53 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-29 3:43 ` Karl Fogel
2022-03-29 5:23 ` Adam
2022-03-29 13:51 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-31 1:55 ` Adam
2022-03-31 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-01 3:28 ` Adam
2022-04-01 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-03 10:25 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2022-03-29 13:50 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-29 14:42 ` Stephen Leake
2022-03-29 8:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-28 22:09 ` Adam
2022-03-28 23:10 ` Ergus
2022-04-01 9:10 ` Augusto Stoffel
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