From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move newsticker to elpa? Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:30:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87k0ye43as.fsf@yandex.com> References: <87zha3q1bx.fsf@panama> <57b649fa-ff6b-bc11-be7d-bf893df78e46@yandex.ru> <87lflmsimm.fsf@panama> <83367u7f7m.fsf@gnu.org> <87a722seov.fsf@panama> <83zha25x85.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgd248da.fsf@panama> <83imdy9s4d.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7ti444h.fsf@panama> <878seugqy3.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36095"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8YkwkwgCuTYX/fy27mgYBjkVGXw= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 04 21:31:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k32el-0009Hb-2i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:31:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52794 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k32ek-0006Xi-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k32ds-00066e-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:55986 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k32dq-0007Gi-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k32dl-0007w9-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:30:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Face: BHjiJOg/Qmj'BQgsAKL@])L)e62P)C"Y=6T Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGQAAAAeBAMAAAAodabAAAAAB3RJTUUH1wQdAAY04/L8hgAA AAlwSFlzAAAewQAAHsEBw2lUUwAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAASUExURc7OzpwAAAAAAP////8A AGNj/2aqqTQAAAA8SURBVHjaYzA2NnEBAmdj01D8wNgYpM7F2JiBgYFREAgEGJiU8AMGBpA6QaCG UVtGbRm1ZdSWUVsGjS0Aq20lJnMawnkAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/04 15:30:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 1 X-Spam_score: 0.1 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:253453 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ulf Jasper writes: >> When I asked whether it were a good idea to move newsticker to >> elpa that started a short discussion. A decision, however, has >> not been made. We could try to do that now. > Have we ever moved something to ELPA before? > I mean, for other things we remove/rename in Emacs, we have a > many-years obsoletion policy (sometimes decades)... Moving stuff > from stock Emacs will break people's setups, and while they can It will break mine. > get it back "just" by installing the package, that's still pretty > annoying. For me, 'packages' have brought problems. Life is too short for that and I refuse to use them. Please give users an alternative - an 'installation from source' even. Best wishes, Colin Baxter URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG fingerprint: 68A8 799C 0230 16E7 BF68 2A27 BBFA 2492 91F5 41C8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------