From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Pennebaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Could we organize all Emacs packages with a single repo system? Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:02 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376668480 12678 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 15:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:54:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 17:54:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VAMML-00067V-3N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:54:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAMMK-00014S-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:54:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAMG6-0006qA-0n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAMFy-0004L4-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from na3sys010aog103.obsmtp.com ([74.125.245.74]:36286) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAMFy-0004KZ-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ea0-f171.google.com ([209.85.215.171]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys010aob103.postini.com ([74.125.244.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUg5JtIJA+FMXVt9GkSRfWbB46pUSZyVK@postini.com; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:48:06 PDT Original-Received: by mail-ea0-f171.google.com with SMTP id n15so1075709ead.2 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=OwRNPoeAg03g4N7r7X+TPrYeulra7E+am5oBj7wgJu0=; b=cbymD9gyayoxfBj3t5O+FRG/6e+E3bzjZXkqovFwtfjks11chWvr+WwvzDD2NFsHPY hGXdaXz0OeWvP4NtfLoD5rEtWkysvjrv9UIDpvJLb3YqlNRtPHQnayEMMQXfT6VGcMMP 8s2OtZzrySs/1iR4vAeXuP27LRNJYoLUDlOCDcMbb+tLjVwUTWY3RKJyKltWnypqjiWD ewXYefTrJ412HZs2f/Cyd3B5coVDFH4yntaEWEx6KE0L8+qzeaX1lyk7Ha3pt8RXVDcd jN5BXBtZnqjLc09Cmu77/j2q9LxWGzUNOrv7dpqRhbfkZAVJ8EjxI2PtAgI5nzASNqok s3Gg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm4b2lEimqeww9By0LAweZeJ1FZB0Q/e/hDWFPMscUY8ovvzQaCnGhod/+qtzgP3oLYodGiqPkaOmqQljjUJVoWSB09XXJqiCejEhgTtj7lzlsFX3fxhHoZj+v8SHu9FEX/W+O6cT+tAYuwP8/W78BRQDRDXIFvdsyVhPYEOGWhZodOFy8= X-Received: by 10.14.223.1 with SMTP id u1mr3015374eep.10.1376668083121; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.14.223.1 with SMTP id u1mr3015363eep.10.1376668083044; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.14.84.74 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:48:02 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 74.125.245.74 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:50:26 -0400 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92934 Archived-At: Marmalade and MELPA are really cool. I'd love to see their packages merged into a single system (Marmalade or MELPA, doesn't matter), to reduce confusion. There are some cool packages only in Marmalade, and some nifty packages only in MELPA, so I have to instruct Emacs to check *both* repos in my .emacs :P Yuck. If the repos hold different versions, you could get nasty dependency conflicts. And we could finally build in support for the repo into Emacs, so users don't have to manually insert the default repo into .emacs. I think M-x install-package xyz should work out of the box, zero configuration required. Of course, configuration would still be available, should further repos spring up, and users want to prioritize them over the default one. Personally, I'd prefer MELPA for its distributed, git-based approach. But it's more important to me that Emacs get a standard package management system akin to RubyGems, that runs out of the box with no configuration required, to make things easier.