From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eipqpwfi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ab0eai3l.fsf@hagelb.org> (Phil Hagelberg's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:13:02 -0700")
Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org> writes:
> One way to do it would be to have every package register as a Savannah
> project, and have some kind of operation (probably implemented as an
> elisp function) that could produce the static files that package.el
> consumes and place them in a publicly accessible http-served
> directory. Making package releases correspond with VCS tags would
> simplify things, so with some kind of post-commit hooks Savannah could
> run this function whenever a tag is updated in the project.
>
> This would require very few changes to package.el. Writing such a
> function should not be difficult. The only question is how easy it would
> be to get Savannah to run it at the right time.
>
> Thoughts?
We're not necessarily restricted to Savannah; if necessary, we might be
able to use the gnu.org ftp servers, and their mirrors (which we
currently already use for distributing the monolithic tarball, after
all).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 21:27 Emacs Package Management Stephen Eilert
2008-08-01 22:58 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-01 23:14 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-08-01 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-02 0:13 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-03 1:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-03 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-04 15:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-04 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-05 8:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-05 13:09 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-05 14:39 ` Paul R
2008-08-06 3:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2009-09-16 22:36 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-09-17 1:44 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 14:58 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-28 21:13 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-28 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-28 21:54 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-09-28 22:30 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-29 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-29 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 19:41 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 2:07 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 20:18 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-01 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-02 1:58 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-02 3:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-02 17:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-12 4:10 ` Thomas Lord
2009-09-12 22:38 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-12 23:30 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-13 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 9:07 ` joakim
2009-09-14 9:26 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-15 7:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 8:30 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-15 18:15 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:58 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-15 22:08 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-16 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-16 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 1:05 ` Geoff Gole
2009-09-17 19:50 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:55 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-17 8:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 8:37 ` joakim
2009-09-17 8:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 9:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 11:50 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-19 2:40 ` Bob Rogers
2009-09-19 12:10 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-17 14:24 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 15:04 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-17 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:21 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-13 17:00 ` Eric Schulte
2008-08-02 14:46 ` Paul R
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