Re: rmsbolt.el [Was: Colorful line numbers]

[Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>]

João Távora writes:

> Changing the subject completely, I wonder if there's any interest in
> adding rmsbolt.el to GNU Elpa or even to core. It's not just for C/C++,
> it works for a bunch of languages.

I am personally open to putting the package on ELPA (or nongnu ELPA). My main 
concern is that I would prefer to keep upstream where it is to avoid moving 
things around - and ideally I would like to avoid doing extra work for new 
versions (melpa automatically builds new versions every time I push/tag a 
release). I haven't followed elpa very closely but my impression is that you 
might be able to set a remote upstream but you would need to manually keep 
re-syncing to keep things up to date in elpa.

Somewhat related, I think a better candidate for ELPA right now is the 
org-notify package, which was dropped from org-contrib a while ago:

- 
  https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib/commit/c6aef31ccfc7c4418c3b51e98f7c3bd8e255f5e6
- https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/8116

I'm not the maintainer of this package, but I would like to see this package 
published on ELPA, nongnu ELPA, or Melpa. Depending on what the maintainer 
prefers, I would be happy to put in any work required to get the package back 
on ELPA (either in org-contrib or on its own).

> Apologies if it's old news and everyone's been using this, but
> it's the best package I've seen appear in some time.

Thanks for the kind words :). I wish I had more time to work on it but I've 
been quite busy in recent years unfortunately.

-Jay