From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Could we organize all Emacs packages with a single repo system? Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:07:33 +0100 Message-ID: <877gfi6iru.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376910482 20219 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 11:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Help To: Andrew Pennebaker Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 13:08:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VBNJc-0002gu-CL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:08:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42114 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNJb-0006ux-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNJH-0006lu-RV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNJD-0005O1-7I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:51430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNJD-0005Mi-14 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VBNJ8-0007uO-Bt; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:07:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (zerg32.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.65.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r7JB7Xle023408 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:07:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Andrew Pennebaker's message of "Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92983 Archived-At: Andrew Pennebaker writes: > Personally, I'd prefer MELPA for its distributed, git-based approach. But > it's more important to me that Emacs get a standard package management > system akin to RubyGems, that runs out of the box with no configuration > required, to make things easier. There is also el-get which works like MELPA, but without the server; the recipes tell your own machine how to get the various files you need. Or my own git-update.el which is like el-get but no advantages, except that it loads quicker. Phil