From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: bozhidar@batsov.dev, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: access to ELPA development packages?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:12:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dhcyy3w.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl6o3fc0.fsf@dick> (dick's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:01:03 -0400")
dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com> writes:
> You've explained this poorly, and at too esoteric a level of detail.
>
> Donning my anti-flak jacket in preparation for RMS's justifiable indignation
> at my having spoken for his eminence, RMS is more concerned about the public's
> conflation of MELPA with GNU, the former having accrued enough name
> recognition over the years to become metonymous with the emacs community despite
> flouting FSF doctrine.
> The MELPA versioning deficiencies are irksome yes, but in no way deleterious
> to MELPA's popularity or basic function, which is two-fold, to provide a
> package archive unconstrained by FSF doctrine, and to feed our narcissism as
> programmers. To expand on the latter, more than ninety percent of the
> packages hosted on MELPA are pet projects of dubious practical value.
>
> To those ends, MELPA provides real value, the objections of ideologues notwithstanding.
My issues with MELPA are not ideological. I know that they have non-free
adjacent software and a lot of weird stuff -- and good stuff too -- but
I am really just conceder with MELPA "unstable" being the default
repository a lot of people use.
--
Philip Kaludercic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-22 0:23 access to ELPA development packages? Stephen Leake
2021-07-22 13:17 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-23 6:26 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-07-23 11:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-07-23 11:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-26 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-26 20:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-07-26 22:01 ` dick
2021-07-27 8:12 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2021-07-27 5:53 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-23 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-26 20:34 ` Yuan Fu
2021-08-03 22:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-31 7:08 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-31 11:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-08-01 7:49 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-02 1:06 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-28 1:01 ` Richard Stallman
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