Re: Emacs-Lisp Bill-Board

[Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

Gilaras Drakeson wrote:
>> [...]
>> Or to say it otherwise: There are lots of peaces of
>> code, see `map-file-lines' published on emacs-devel
>> yesterday, which look perfectly useful for people
>> knowing Emacs Lisp, regardless of an upcoming
>> implementation.
>> [...]
>> I've thought at a kind of bill-board, where everyone
>> interested might pin his code onto it.
>>
>> An account on launchpad seems suitable for that task.
>> People should get push-permission on a low level,
>> anyone interested basically.
> 
> How about designing a mechanism from within Emacs to search, browse,
> post (push and then announce it somewhere), install, uninstall and
> update a piece of code from launchpad? (or adapting elpa + rmail +
> something else to do all this)
> 
> --
> Gilaras
> 
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> 
> 

at launchpad it's on bazaar, so access is not difficult and should already be built
in with some (d)vc-backend.

Too such a bill-board seems suitable to preserve, read and pick some code, not installing
it all and at once.

Andreas