From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="3715"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 21 05:43:12 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 1jbc6y-0000rn-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 05:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45752 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc6x-000227-7L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc6B-0000l5-Ct for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc6B-0002w3-2n; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc6A-0006gu-6p; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Tim Cross on Wed, 20 May 2020 10:28:42 +1000) 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:251141 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Is there actually a discoverability problem for GNU ELPA packages? After > over 25 years of Emacs use, I think discovering and trying out new packages > and features has never been easier. I really don't miss the old days of > hunting around various ftp servers trying to find the latest and current > version of some library or package. It sounds like you are especially savvy about searching for packages. Most users are not so knowledgeable; improving discoverability wouldbe intended for their sake. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)