From: Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: Are there an elisp package manager like apt-get or cpan?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:58:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xltyptr.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wt9d5d2w.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
Hi Tim,
> I think you hit th enail on the head - the real problem is that we
> don't have a central, maintained and up-to-date repository of emacs
> packages. There have been anumber of emacs lisp archives in the past,
> but they all seem to last only as long as the person who initiated the
> effort is prepared to maintain things. Once they move on to something
> else, it all just dies.
If there was such an repository and an asdf-install like tool for elisp
I'm sure developers would update their packages themselves.
> It would be nice if some body like GNU would setup and maintain a
> single comprehensive elisp archive.
I think a simple packages.el on emacswiki.org would suffice in the
beginning. Then developers could update their packages themselves
without having to register somewhere.
Bye,
Tassilo
--
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2006-08-13 3:50 ` Are there an elisp package manager like apt-get or cpan? Þorne
2006-08-13 4:25 ` Þorne
2006-08-13 7:17 ` chylli
2006-08-13 7:06 ` Tim X
2006-08-13 7:58 ` chylli
2006-08-13 8:58 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2006-08-14 8:24 ` Tim X
2006-08-13 13:10 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.5139.1155474630.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-13 14:25 ` Robert D. Crawford
2006-08-13 17:01 ` Is there an elisp package manager? ken
2006-08-12 14:53 Are there an elisp package manager like apt-get or cpan? chylli
2006-08-13 19:35 ` Peter Dyballa
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