From: Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
phil@hagelb.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:36:29 -0300 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> In the context of package management, who's going to enforce those
> package
> restrictions? Should packages be approved manually before being added to
> whatever repository we devise?
>
> We could treat them the same way as if they were included in the
> usual Emacs distribution, in effect spitting that distribution into parts.
>
To sum it up: there *is* interest in a packaging feature, and the issues
seem to be mostly in the area of copyright assignment. If that's correct,
this is good.
ELPA is a nice starting point. But I think it is disproportionally easy to
download packages, as opposed to submitting them. For single files, I would
very much like to have a M-x submit-package, and have it do anything
required to upload it, adding licenses and so on. I don't mind if packages
have to be approved for inclusion in official repositories, but it should be
easy to upload them. For FSF packages, it could sign them with the user's
key.
Dependencies management is also nice, but we'd have to have a way to
identify packages.
And, most importantly, failing packages should not interrupt emacs startup.
I've implemented a simple system(for my own use) where it creates a buffer
with package load status. Failing packages are skipped, but obviously there
is no way to undo side-effects.
--Stephen
programmer, n:
A red eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate monsters.
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 21:27 Emacs Package Management Stephen Eilert
2008-08-01 22:58 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-01 23:14 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-08-01 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-02 0:13 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-03 1:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-03 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-04 15:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-04 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-05 8:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-05 13:09 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-05 14:39 ` Paul R
2008-08-06 3:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2009-09-16 22:36 ` Stephen Eilert [this message]
2009-09-17 1:44 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 14:58 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-28 21:13 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-28 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-28 21:54 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-28 22:30 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-29 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-29 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 19:41 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 2:07 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 20:18 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-01 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-02 1:58 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-02 3:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-02 17:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-12 4:10 ` Thomas Lord
2009-09-12 22:38 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-12 23:30 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-13 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 9:07 ` joakim
2009-09-14 9:26 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-15 7:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 8:30 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-15 18:15 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:58 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-15 22:08 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-16 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-16 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 1:05 ` Geoff Gole
2009-09-17 19:50 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:55 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-17 8:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 8:37 ` joakim
2009-09-17 8:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 9:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 11:50 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-19 2:40 ` Bob Rogers
2009-09-19 12:10 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-17 14:24 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 15:04 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-17 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:21 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-13 17:00 ` Eric Schulte
2008-08-02 14:46 ` Paul R
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