From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SMIE Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:55:30 +0200 Message-ID: <53F06E02.6000503@online.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408265823 3919 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2014 08:57:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chad To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 17 10:56:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XIwGl-0008KZ-70 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:56:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37993 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIwGk-0003qB-Sd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIwG3-00033Q-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIwFw-0001bu-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:61655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIwFv-0001bk-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.32] (brln-4db9f33e.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.243.62]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreue006) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lq2aK-1WfUpa126S-00dla8; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:55:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:ecTN5ePkmmEUNo2QfUVTzEO9fuR6UA3KsbK6TE84vkW 3w3SQDOPGg1sctX7R+L5vg4LwNb6pREC5WVBX0kFTKtsy1ILK2 VgShpEuf0F/gwQYl0YUQbwfUcHIozpVO7X08lNrCl6ekTnvOPf S6HaaZ06HfWXdJnJdqj7OQKffycg/A4s4p8qa/8Uo2JPgnalmV pOF5TqSYIdOqObL7Os9wIaQV1pS/t7bdtIoj4S6wZE8YWxoTet NHpiH7Brja9xKq+BfuBDGTzMZN6GvqUQumt74TML/ZQai2vCBV Uhhos0sACO2ZliZHijd0YqoHzez186muuAbtQOrIXLb2b5gNWi K+LebzMJJrtR1djRUZ8ME5ZJcxwRFYyKH4F3utzkN X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.131 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173724 Archived-At: On 10.07.2014 19:00, chad wrote: > On 09 Jul 2014, at 20:59, Matt DeBoard wrote: > >> As regarding inclusion in GNU ELPA, I'm just a caretaker for the >> project on behalf of the Elixir-lang people, but as it's already in >> MELPA I'm sure it's fine. > > I would go a step further than Stefan and say that MELPA is basically the archetype of not-fine in this domain: finding a package in MELPA means, basically "someone, somewhere, wrote some code that might do something, in some of the versions I've had at some point". Finding a package in GNU ELPA (or a handful of other elpa repositories) adds things like "this version should actually do what's written on the tin" to potentially-interesting properties like "copyrights already assigned" and "can be fixed by interested emacs maintainers". > > I hope that helps, > ~Chad Hi Chad, being able to use and distribute code written by "someone, somewhere,..." IMO is perfectly fine, it's the spirit of freedom. OTOH that argument fixing by "interested Emacs maintainers" seems not to work that great as expected. Fixing a language mode requires some knowledge of the language. Otherwise there is a risk of nagging the maintainer. WRT to the pure amount of existing languages, lets have a friendly attitude towards Emacs' community contributions. Andreas