Re: Layers/Modules (was none)

[Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Ag Ibragimov <agzam.ibragimov@gmail.com> writes:

> Spacemacs (community-driven Emacs distribution/config) has a feature
> called Layers, Doom-Emacs (another community-driven Emacs config) has
> a similar feature (I think they are called Modules).
>
> A Layer is a bundle of [related] Emacs packages that work together and
> very often tightly integrate (with one another) to provide a
> comprehensive set of features to achieve specific goals. For example,
> there are many language-specific Spacemacs layers: Python, Lua,
> Haskell, etc.
> For example, the Python layer includes basic Python-related packages and sets defaults for Flycheck, Company, etc.
> There also layers for tools like Docker or layers for version-control, et al.
>
> So my question is: Has anyone ever thought about designing a sort of
> standardized module system? It would be great if we could have a
> unified model for creating such bundles.
> Wouldn't be nice if for example, instead of discovering, installing
> and configuring a bunch of related packages, an Emacs user would say:
> "install LaTeX module" and then "customize "LaTeX module", etc.
>
> Emacs ecosystem is growing. There are hundreds (maybe more) packages;
> standardizing a system that would allow the "plug-n-play" experience
> would be very nice. Otherwise, everyone would continue solving same
> problems in their own, unique ways, increasing entropy towards the
> "Lisp curse."

How is this conceptually different from a package that depends on other
packages?

  Andrea