From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Can list-packages be set up to show latest github emacs packages? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:34:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <26939223-e0bb-4400-8419-fac533e57365@default> References: <3f62e436-87d6-485e-aea8-7e403a9db901@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510335456 8877 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2017 17:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:37:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Deric Bytes , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 18:37:32 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 1eDDFD-0001th-8L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:37:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDDFH-0004o7-C3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:37:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDDCQ-0002t9-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDDCN-0001yS-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:49601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDDCN-0001wo-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id vAAHYVTS008334 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:34:31 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id vAAHYUpH026902 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:34:31 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0007.oracle.com (abhmp0007.oracle.com [141.146.116.13]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id vAAHYUb1020883; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:34:30 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4600.0 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:114843 Archived-At: >> Doesn't `el-get' also have as a feature the ability to pull from >> various different kinds of sources, including, say, Emacs Wiki? >> >> IIUC, it is not limited to pulling from a GIT archive. That's >> a significant advantage, I would think. >=20 > Yes it does. Here is an example of such a recipie that comes > bundled with el-get... Good to know, especially since MELPA has apparently decided to no longer support Emacs Wiki. GIT is fine, but it should not be regarded as the only way - the be-all and end-all - for users to distribute and retrieve Emacs libraries/packages. If `el-get' supports multiple kinds of sources, including but not limited to GIT archives, so much the better. It's too bad (IMHO) that MELPA has abandoned such an approach, but that's OK.