From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can list-packages be set up to show latest github emacs packages? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:46:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3f62e436-87d6-485e-aea8-7e403a9db901@googlegroups.com> <87h8u78kxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bmkc9aar.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wp2z72zv.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510321854 14623 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2017 13:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:50:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 14:50:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9hp-0003Z0-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:50:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9hw-0006PX-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9hT-0006PP-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:50:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9hO-0006in-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:50:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39888 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9hN-0006ge-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eD9h9-0001qK-LQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:50:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MfZ6pwNn5eQDUQ5wFkJyC3uLWxk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114832 Archived-At: >>> Oh. So you want el-get but those get-recipes to be maintained for you. I >>> would talk to the el-get maintainers. SM> I think another part of the request makes sense: integrate this with SM> package.el. I.e. package.el could provide some way to hook in non-ELPA SM> sources of packages (including browsing them via list-packages and SM> installing/ activating them). > I agree, but it would have to be clearly separated, so users are not > thinking those are ELPA-style packages. Maybe a separate section? I'd expect the hook to take place by adding non-ELPA "archives", so the current display of the archive's name should be sufficient. Why should the user care so much about which protocol is used to talk to the archive? Stefan