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 Package Management Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:25 -0400 Message-ID: <87eipqpwfi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87ej589vku.fsf@hagelb.org> <485b0c380808050609y56042595l42a5bb05b34458f0@mail.gmail.com> <485b0c380909161536t331a71fdg1c45150c418b72b2@mail.gmail.com> <87ab0eai3l.fsf@hagelb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254174888 21216 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 21:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Stephen Eilert , rms@gnu.org To: Phil Hagelberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 23:54:40 2009 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 4.50) id 1MsOB6-0002kO-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:54:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOB5-000410-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOB0-0003z9-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOAw-0003vx-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52588 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOAw-0003vn-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po45.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.79]:57992) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsOAt-0007yy-Jz; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014244.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po45.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n8SLsPJ2006628 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E43A7C070; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ab0eai3l.fsf@hagelb.org> (Phil Hagelberg's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:13:02 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:115744 Archived-At: Phil Hagelberg writes: > One way to do it would be to have every package register as a Savannah > project, and have some kind of operation (probably implemented as an > elisp function) that could produce the static files that package.el > consumes and place them in a publicly accessible http-served > directory. Making package releases correspond with VCS tags would > simplify things, so with some kind of post-commit hooks Savannah could > run this function whenever a tag is updated in the project. > > This would require very few changes to package.el. Writing such a > function should not be difficult. The only question is how easy it would > be to get Savannah to run it at the right time. > > Thoughts? We're not necessarily restricted to Savannah; if necessary, we might be able to use the gnu.org ftp servers, and their mirrors (which we currently already use for distributing the monolithic tarball, after all).