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: How does ELPA work? Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:05:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87aah7rjkx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87d3m9pou4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjv1i89t.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299449459 17527 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 22:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 23:10:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PwMA8-00082q-1k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:10:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38506 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwM9w-0004V8-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:10:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52333 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwM82-00037q-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwM4n-0007pr-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:60524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwM4n-0007pk-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from furball ([64.134.240.221]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p26M5H0F000868 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CE6F1604E8; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:05:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87sjv1i89t.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:09:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.145 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136821 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: > Does there exist a small blurb for elpa contributors? This shouldn't > include the upload procedure only, but also some instructions how to > organize the package (files with version in theie name? directories > with version in their name? readme? what else?) I have done some revising of the Packaging chapter in the Lisp manual. Take a look there and see if the explanation of how to create a package is clear enough. It also explains how to set up a "mini" package archive on your local machine. This provides a way to test installing your package from the M-x list-packages interface, by adding the local archive to the `package-archives' alist. The instructions for uploading to elpa.gnu.org need a little more work. (And we probably need more functionality in package-x.el, whose commands currently assume you're uploading directly to a package archive, whereas our elpa branch is a source repository from which a package archive is generated.)