From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: Adam <adam.niederer@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 04:28:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr16l88qg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91a6d9o76u.fsf@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:53:29 -0700")
> Sadly putting the examples in README is not very helpful since
> installing your package from melpa doesn't appear to bring down the
> README; one shouldn't need to click through to Github to find out how to
> use it if one has installed the package.
A better fix is to make it easy for Emacs to show the README (assuming
it's included in the tarball). I think we've discussed this in the past
and there had been some progress, but there's probably more to do.
> Also, a README that says "it's like JQuery but far less useful" is
> likely to chase away any users --- yes I understand the need for
> humility and to not over-promise but this is perhaps going a bit to far
> --- why not try to at least have the goal of making it as useful as
> JQuery? Alternatively just write an elisp wrapper that calls JQuery:-)
More importantly, it should also be understandable by someone who
doesn't know what is JQuery.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-29 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-28 3:58 [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph Adam
2022-03-28 6:59 ` Visuwesh
2022-03-28 17:21 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-29 1:53 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-29 3:43 ` Karl Fogel
2022-03-29 5:23 ` Adam
2022-03-29 13:51 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-31 1:55 ` Adam
2022-03-31 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-01 3:28 ` Adam
2022-04-01 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-03 10:25 ` Stephen Leake
2022-03-29 13:50 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-29 14:42 ` Stephen Leake
2022-03-29 8:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-03-28 22:09 ` Adam
2022-03-28 23:10 ` Ergus
2022-04-01 9:10 ` Augusto Stoffel
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