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: Emacs Package Management Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87ej589vku.fsf@hagelb.org> <485b0c380808050609y56042595l42a5bb05b34458f0@mail.gmail.com> <485b0c380909161536t331a71fdg1c45150c418b72b2@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253195087 24368 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2009 13:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Stephen Eilert , phil@hagelb.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 15:44:39 2009 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 4.50) id 1MoHHn-0008Ai-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:44:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHHm-0001DW-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHH5-0000kB-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHH0-0000el-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53689 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoHH0-0000eP-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:59837 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoHGy-0007cq-VZ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:45 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq8EAPLZsUpFxKiJ/2dsb2JhbACBU90thBgFh38 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,403,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="45858026" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-137.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.137]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2009 09:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 67134827E; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:44:05 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:115411 Archived-At: Stephen> ELPA is a nice starting point. But I think it is Stephen> disproportionally easy to download packages, as opposed to Stephen> submitting them. For single files, I would very much like to Stephen> have a M-x submit-package, and have it do anything required to Stephen> upload it, adding licenses and so on. > Yeah. I would like this too, but that would mean finding time to write > the web app and everything else :-) For the FSF-hosted repository of packages, I'd want all the packages to be version controlled, so the "submit-package" would be nothing else than "bzr commit" (but yes, some extra code would need to be written to automatically build a tarball out of the newly committed code, ...). > Yes, this is something that package.el provides. One thing that would > be nice is to have Emacs also advertise the packages it provides -- that Indeed, we'd of course want that, if/once we provide such a package system. But that should be easy. Stefan