From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package xeft.el
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 13:38:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a62yxf84.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwn62xgim.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:24:58 -0500")
On 04 Jan 2023, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>Yuan Fu [2023-01-02 20:11:50] wrote:
>> I wrote xeft.el awhile ago, it allows you to search text notes
>> really fast
>> by using a dynamic module. My initial plan is to somehow plug
>> the dynamic
>> module into Deft some day and I’ll keep xeft to myself. Turns
>> out it’s not
>> very feasible to make Deft use the dynamic module, so now I
>> thought I might
>> as well publish xeft. After all I think it is really cool and I
>> want more
>> people to use it :-)
>>
>> You can find xeft here: https://git.sr.ht/~casouri/xeft
>
>I'm a bit uncomfortable with the way this is set up:
>it's unusable without downloading further code first.
FWIW, I also was uncomfortable with this. I started to try out
xeft, but then I stopped when it asked me if I wanted to download
a binary package whose provenance wasn't clear to me.
Actually, I tried choosing the 'c' option to 'c'ompile, but that
got a generic error, "Wrong type argument" or something like that.
I couldn't tell what was wrong. I thought that having certain
Debian packages (xapian-tools, python3-xapian, libxapian30,
libxapian-dev) installed already might mean that xeft would Just
Work, but that wasn't the case.
Best regards,
-Karl
>Why not do it like the `pq` package, which includes the C source
>code in
>the GNU ELPA package? IOW merge your `xapian-lite` repository
>into the
>`xeft` repository. Or make a GNU ELPA package for `xapian-lite`
>if you
>think the two should not be so closely tied to one another?
>
>Other details I saw along the way:
>- You claim you have precompiled packages for GNU/Linux but
>that's only
> true for amd64, which is only a particular subset of GNU/Linux
> (most of my GNU/Linux machines (i386, armhf, arm64) are outside
> of
> that subset, for example).
>
>- Your source code includes `emacs-module.h` which should not be
> necessary because that file is distributed with Emacs (the way
> `pq`
> finds it is not ideal, but this might be a good opportunity to
> look
> at improving the situation and providing a standardized way for
> ELisp packages to find that file).
>
>- `xapian-lite.cc` lacks a license blurb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-04 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-03 4:11 [ELPA] New package xeft.el Yuan Fu
2023-01-04 8:08 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-04 16:46 ` Fu Yuan
2023-01-06 17:34 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-10 10:48 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-04 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-01-04 19:38 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2023-01-06 5:48 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-06 5:46 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-06 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-01-10 10:57 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-13 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-13 9:54 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-15 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-16 7:48 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-17 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-17 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-23 4:23 ` Richard Stallman
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