From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:19:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mxpabjj3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8762vyz5rl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739r2z1w8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87y68t8jif.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87r5eljosw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fwv1rukn.fsf@gmail.com> <87tyjh3xgo.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87mxp71xd0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8662vsqph5.fsf@betla.home> <87vd3pe7og.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87eiadwbiu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290534029 2344 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2010 17:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 23 18:40:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKwqu-0000SY-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKwqt-0002ni-VH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49360 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKwXO-0005Zy-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKwWf-0005RL-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKwWf-0005RF-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKwWc-0003yp-21; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:19:26 -0500 In-reply-to: <87eiadwbiu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:47:37 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133067 Archived-At: I think we should stick to ELPA. It stands for "Emacs Lisp Package Archive", which is much more logical and easier to remember than an unrelated self-referential acronym. That is the worst possible name. We already know that this leads to confusion. There need not be one single ELPA; if one needs to draw a distinction, we can refer to GNU ELPA versus Tom Tromey's ELPA, etc. But not everyone will know this is necessary. Stefan's suggestion to use emacs.gnu.org/packages is fine by me too, but even in that case we'd still refer to the package archive as the GNU Emacs package archive, so there's hardly much difference. emacs.gnu.org is fine as a host name, but if the URL doesn't provide some suitable name to refer to this collection of packages, it won't avoid the confusion. emacs.gnu.org/packages doesn't solve the problem. So we want to replace either `emacs' or `packages' with a name people could use conversationally for this particular collection of packages. Another idea might be to replace the word "archive" with something else -- "collection"? -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org