From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Are there an elisp package manager like apt-get or cpan? Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:58:40 +0200 Organization: University Koblenz-Landau Campus Koblenz Message-ID: <878xltyptr.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> References: <1155441044.103183.254590@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <87wt9d5d2w.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155462036 654 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2006 09:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 11:40:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCCSN-0002JP-WD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCCSN-00012O-Cj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!cache.uni-koblenz.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-063-038-251.pools.arcor-ip.net Original-X-Trace: cache.uni-koblenz.de 1155459520 9793 84.63.38.251 (13 Aug 2006 08:58:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cache.uni-koblenz.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:58:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j4FXOxX47tPHFqG0c/rmnuqGYw8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141028 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36653 Archived-At: Tim X 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 -- A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five!