From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: libraries (was: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) and reserve it for third-party packages) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:14:16 +0100 Message-ID: <871rdi1pqf.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> References: <877dndgnhp.fsf@posteo.net> <329d68a5edfafadfe7cd@heytings.org> <87y2fsg5ve.fsf@posteo.net> <87mtw8fi6k.fsf@posteo.net> <87ft20f3ec.fsf@posteo.net> <8735xz67ye.fsf@posteo.net> <87mtw74j5h.fsf@posteo.net> <663841c0e3fb003a733c@heytings.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37334"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1://EchqrNlCW/Iwjg7CEetzh5OYU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 19:46:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMPu-0009Yk-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:46:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57066 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMPt-0003jc-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBLub-0007XZ-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBLua-0005wD-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lBLuY-0004an-65 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:14:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128046 Archived-At: Gregory Heytings wrote: > On Elpa and Melpa there are currently 5121 distinct packages [...] We could reduce the code size a lot if we did huge package libraries and organized everything systematically, with search tools and stuff, optimally... Below is just some Elisp that comes to mind. How many people did that, in how many different but similar versions and varieties, instead of getting it somewhere? I still don't know where to look and installation is more difficult than writing it even if I were to find it. Bring all simple things into a bunch of huge files, done deal. (defun // (n d) (/ n d 1.0) ) ;; (// 8 256) ; 0.03125 ;; (/ 8 256) ; 0 (defun percent (n d) (let ((pct (/ n d 0.01))) (message "%.1f%%" pct))) ;; (percent 8 256) ; 3.1% ;; (percent 0 1337) ; 0.0% (defun mean-value (vs) (let*((sum (apply #'+ vs)) (mean (/ sum (length vs) 1.0)) ) mean) ) (defun hypotenuse (c1 c2) (sqrt (+ (* c1 c1) (* c2 c2))) ) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal