From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:58:59 -0600 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217631556 29097 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 22:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 22:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen Eilert" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 01:00:07 2008 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 1KP3bS-0007Od-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:00:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KP3aX-0007DS-QO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KP3aS-0007Ap-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KP3aR-00078s-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35186 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KP3aQ-00078j-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45124) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KP3aQ-00014s-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m71Mx0ZI018477; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m71Mx07b018804; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-10-95.bos.redhat.com [10.16.10.95]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m71MwxdN006150; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 29424508204; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:58:59 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Eilert's message of "Fri\, 1 Aug 2008 18\:27\:24 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:101929 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Eilert writes: Stephen> With a slightly improved system, we could have Stephen> dependencies. This could make easier to solve the Stephen> aforementioned problem of gathering multiple, independent Stephen> packages from different sources. Just FYI -- package.el (the elisp side of ELPA) does handle dependencies. :-) Stephen> Does anyone see a major flaw in a system like that? Or is it Stephen> a matter of "show me the code and I'll comment"? ELPA could Stephen> be the starting point. There was a discussion a while ago on this list. RMS wanted to restrict the available packages to those which had been assigned to the FSF, but I did not agree with that. I would reconsider my position if the Emacs maintainers were interested -- I think it would be useful to Emacs users if there were a simple, standard way to install and activate packages. However, this would still not help you directly, because I think some of the packages you want are not assigned. So, you would have to solve that problem as well. Tom