From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:54:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hbie8ppy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739tyxoe5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87wrranqfv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fwxvk4ud.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <877hj7o9ia.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87tymal844.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283324099 10382 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2010 06:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 01 08:54:57 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 1OqhDj-0005Af-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:54:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqhDj-0001u5-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40107 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqhDX-0001sE-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:54:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqhDS-0005dJ-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm4.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.4]:30507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqhDS-0005cw-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:54:38 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost6.adm.correo ([10.20.102.127]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 1Jba1f00H2kvMAa3QJuddo; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:54:37 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.40.7.141]) by IMPmailhost6.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 1Juc1f00532ZxvX1mJuc2N; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:54:37 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2460B660DF; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:54:36 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87tymal844.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:39:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129538 Archived-At: > A hash table is an optimization. I think complete information about > every package should be in the same place to help libraries to process > package information instead of relying on two separate variables I'd tend to agree, tho I don't think it matters that much for keywords. While I'm here, keywords are good when you need to show a list of "topics" to structure the set of packages, but we probably also need a way to "search". Problem is that we don't have a search engine in Elisp, so we'd have to rely on an external tool for that. Stefan