From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ELPA: package system for Emacs Date: 06 Apr 2007 12:52:23 -0600 Message-ID: Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175891739 5070 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 20:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:35:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 22:34:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZtu4-0002hf-3k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:15:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZtxZ-00069t-Lv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZtxN-00069n-Hj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZtxM-00069b-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZtxL-00069Y-Rp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZttp-0005yt-Eg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HZttm-00021a-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.189.193.120 ([207.189.193.120]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from tromey by 207.189.193.120 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.189.193.120 X-Attribution: Tom User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:42467 Archived-At: Lately I've been working on package.el, a simple packaging system for Emacs. It is work pretty well now, well enough that I'm looking around for packages to upload. I started going through ELL and the history of gnu-emacs-sources (thanks gmane!), looking for lisp to upload. But I quickly realized, this does not scale very well... both of these sources have outdated code, ELL has some stale links, etc. So, I am asking for package developers to mail me their Emacs Lisp packages. For a package that consists of a single self-contained file, it must: * Strictly adhere to the Emacs Lisp comment guidelines. package.el is pedantic about these. In particular I've seen many packages whose first or last line is not properly formatted. * Define a Version field in the header comments that is purely "dotted numeric". If you really want to use $Id$ or something here, then add a Package-Version field that is purely numeric. * Properly use ";;;###autoload" comments (for best results anyhow). For larger packages, please email me first so we can discuss the situation... you will need to add a file. If you want to learn more about ELPA, or want to try out package.el, look here: http://tromey.com/elpa/ thanks, Tom