From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org packages requiring external packages Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:12:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87inbjo1y8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87h8r1lxy8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zi4ro614.fsf@163.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517593684 9284 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 17:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:48:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 18:48:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ehfRI-0001fw-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:47:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehfTJ-0004eO-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehe1O-0006pf-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdxX-00058q-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:17:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35395 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdxX-00057j-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdv3-0001EE-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:10:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:DV0PaNv+hnPJ/5Xa/Qzyr4RgXcI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222417 Archived-At: >>>>> > ebdb-i18n-chn # needs "pyim" >>> BTW, I think Emacs comes with 99% of what's needed already (it does >>> have a pinyin table and looking at pyim-hanzi2pinyin, there doesn't >>> seem to be much more to it), so maybe we could add to Emacs a function >>> equivalent to pyim-hanzi2pinyin and get rid of this dependency. >> I'll take a look and see how close it already is. I'd be happy to add a >> function to Emacs to do this or, if it's a real no-brainer, just add it >> to EBDB and remove this dependency (and probably the whole package). > Maybe we should add a hanzi2pinyin package to elpa, for this > hanzi->pinyin feature is very important to Chinese Emacs user. My impression is that it will be simple enough that we could add it to lisp/language/chinese.el or something like that, but indeed distributing it via ELPA would make it easier for other packages to start using it, so we'd have to put it in a separate file. Stefan