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: unsupported packages area in the Emacs repo Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:36:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: <878wclke6j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: elpa@tromey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262122774 4606 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2009 21:39:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jonas , elpa@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 22:39:26 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 1NPjkT-0007pq-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:37:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjkU-0004kR-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjkP-0004kC-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjkL-0004j1-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57157 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjkL-0004iw-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-mail-21.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.16]:54377) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPjkL-0002nX-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 31095 invoked by uid 0); 29 Dec 2009 21:36:47 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO box522.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.122) by outboundproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 2009 21:36:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=tromey.com; h=Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Reply-To:X-Attribution:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Identified-User; b=KVwkHyIOomE+4GT44a8k2WoOxS8Pxn7PGt+T/lRBph/86eFtRxnG9kZMHRjZ62p7D0jgtD/nX+fLWwzB/1+ooSyQ/roAyLejS3a2AdEdtG0EGlxJYFrgQfIyatEiNXD2; Original-Received: from [207.189.193.92] (helo=opsy) by box522.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NPjkF-0002g5-E5; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:36:47 -0700 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:14:36 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Identified-User: {36111:box522.bluehost.com:elynrobi:tromey.com} {sentby:smtp auth 207.189.193.92 authed with elpa+tromey.com} X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:118989 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: Ted> I hope Tom Tromey and Jonas Bernoulli are interested in participating Ted> too, and that the Emacs maintainers are willing to give this a try. Ted> FWIW I will help any way I can and I think it would really improve the Ted> Emacs user experience to install unsupported packages easily. I am interested but I don't have time to work on it. Recently, Phil Hagelberg has been looking into integrating package.el into Emacs. I don't know how much progress he has made. There are a couple problems to be solved in the Emacs source tree, and then a more sane server side must be written. The latter may just be some version control system plus some post-commit hooks to regenerate the metadata. Tom