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: GNU ELPA structure Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:11 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335712820 27110 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2012 15:20:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:20:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 29 17:20:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOVv9-0007LO-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOVv8-00055Z-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOVv6-00055T-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOVv4-0004C1-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:59460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOVv4-0004Br-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q3TFKCLC000953; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 14DEAAE113; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:11 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4207=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4207> : streams <751258> : uri <1105186> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150135 Archived-At: Currently, GNU ELPA contains sufficiently few packages, that a flat list is OK, but will soon become inconvenient for end-users. So we should start thinking about how to structure the space of ELPA packages. I think a first division is between packages that only provide functions for use by other packages (which I'd call "libraries") and "end-user packages" which provide commands the user can use directly. After that we could either have a tree structure (somewhat like the subdirs in `emacs/lisp'), or otherwise rely on "tags", which would probably be taken from the "keywords:" package header. Stefan