From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MELPA issues - Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201011120840.GC2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201011125031.GC6784@odonien.localdomain> <20201012050418.GZ2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201013052736.GE31408@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> <20201016163345.GD3216@protected.rcdrun.com> <7f300e5d-2421-4817-bc6b-efed1f1b32af@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12884"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mve1@runbox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Qiantan Hong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 06:21:16 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 1kTdiV-0003CI-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:21:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdiU-0003Rl-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdg8-0000Dl-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdg7-00022U-Da; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdg6-0007Er-Cg; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:18:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Qiantan Hong on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:00:23 +0000) 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:257891 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. ]]] > As a package writer, my main concern is that > it seems that the package submission process > require proprietary software (particularly non-free > JavaScript by m$ Github). What I would do, in that situation, is not submit my package to Melpa. Meanwhile, this aspect of Melpa is an additional reason not to do anything to lead people to use Melpa. I hope the developers of Melpa will fix this. -- 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)