From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and the Status Notification Specification Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:49 -0400 Message-ID: <874o37fgkq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87wrgcz9ks.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762nrcl8k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vcvqp3zv.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309455004 24515 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2011 17:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 19:30:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QcL3v-0006x6-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcL3u-0000y9-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcJmW-0003Oy-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcJmU-00022l-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:38625) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcJmR-00022X-Ga; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014060.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.60]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5UG7ofJ010214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:14:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 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:141250 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Please call the GNU ELPA as such, or GELPA, or something besides just > "ELPA." I remember we had this discussion before and I've tried to be > consistent, using "GNU ELPA" when I mean "GNU ELPA." > > The problem with "GNU ELPA" as a name is that people will tend to > think that "ELPA" is an abbreviation of it. To avoid confusion, we > need a name that is not similar to "ELPA". > > How about Remote Emacs Library? If we abandon ELPA as a term for archives of this type, we need also to come up with a replacement name for archives of this type. But "Emacs Lisp Package Archive" is the natural name to use when referring to archives made using package.el, which internally refers ubiquitously to "packages" and "archives". So it would be preferable to use ELPA as the generic name. It would help if tromey.com/elpa/ would rebrand itself as "Tom's ELPA" or something along those lines, instead of "the" ELPA as it currently (understandably) does. This will reduce confusion not only with the GNU ELPA, but also the personal ELPAs that a few users are apparently starting to set up. Tom, WDYT?