From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: evdocs
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 17:11:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czt9poc1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5yz1eis7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 29 May 2021 10:09:36 -0400")
On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 10:09, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> [About the silly name: "devdocs" is already taken by a MELPA package.
>> That package is quite different and doesn't provide a viewer; it simply
>> calls `browse-url' on a suitable https://devdocs.io location.]
>
> AFAICT that MELPA package hasn't seen any activity in the last 4 years
> and is *very* simple. Any chance you could make yours be a superset of
> that one and then ask its author if he minds that you take that name
> (basically, ask him to pass maintainership to you)?
>
>
> Stefan
I didn't want to even support the option to open an URL in an external
browser, which is what the other package does. But you are right, it
would cost nothing to add this extra little command for backwards
compatibility.
So I just asked the author of "devdocs" package.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-29 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-29 11:54 [ELPA] New package: evdocs Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 12:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-05-29 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-29 15:11 ` Augusto Stoffel [this message]
2021-05-29 16:53 ` [ELPA] New package: devdocs Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 17:20 ` Yikai Zhao
2021-05-30 15:30 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-30 15:44 ` Yikai Zhao
2021-05-30 14:10 ` [ELPA] New package: evdocs T.V Raman
2021-05-30 14:22 ` Augusto Stoffel
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