Re: Request to include a couple of packages in GNU ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
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>>
>>   > The service they provide is having indexed a lot of haskell libraries,
>>   > more than most people want to have installed on their own machines.
>>   > That is why they refer to themselves as a search engine, because they
>>   > provide a discovery feature.
>>
>> To use their service as a search engine for other people's code makes
>> some sense, and it's fine.
>>
>> But do they also invite you to send your own private code to be
>> indexed, then subsequently use their server to search for things in
>> your own code?  That would be SaaSS!
>
> As far as I know, the service only indexes code available on standard
> haskell repository https://hackage.haskell.org/ and it is not possible
> to use it for private code.

It is, and they document how to do it:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ndmitchell/hoogle/master/docs/Install.md

From what I see, it shouldn't be SaaSS, as it can be used offline.  As
such it would be nice if a hoogle package for Emacs could support this
mode of operation as well.

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Philip Kaludercic