From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:27:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwxvk4ud.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrranqfv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:44:04 -0400")
>> I think Keywords should be additional package attribute
>> along with Name, Version, Brief description, Long description.
>
> There should definitely be a way to search packages by keyword, but I am
> not sure if setting them as package attributes is necessary. I am
> experimenting with a few different approaches, such as storing a
> keyword-to-package map in the repository.
It's better to have all package information in one place.
I suggest not to lose information that was in finder-inf.el.
Before your changes:
("ediff.el"
"a comprehensive visual interface to diff & patch"
(comparing merging patching tools unix))
After:
(ediff .
[(2 81 4) nil "a comprehensive visual interface to diff & patch"])
It would be easier for libraries to access keywords from the same data
structure, e.g.
(ediff .
[(2 81 4) nil "a comprehensive visual interface to diff & patch"
(comparing merging patching tools unix)])
> We can simply have `make finder-data'
> collect information about built-in packages. During
> `package-initialize' (usually called at startup), Emacs can supplement
> the data in finder-inf.el using cached information about elpa.gnu.org
> packages. During `package-refresh-contents', when Emacs connects to
> elpa.gnu.org, it can update this information.
Yes, finder-inf.el is a cache for built-ins, so you could create a similar
cache for elpa.gnu.org packages.
>> Does this mean that `list-packages' will list all Emacs built-in
>> packages (in addition to elpa packages)? Maybe not bad, after all.
>
> Yeah. There's a lot of built-in packages (around 400), so we should
> probably also add a toggle to hide them.
Or create separate commands to list either built-in packages
or elpa packages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-31 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-28 20:08 Merging Finder into package mechanism Chong Yidong
2010-08-28 20:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-28 23:38 ` Juri Linkov
2010-08-29 1:44 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-31 0:27 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-08-31 1:29 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-31 22:39 ` Juri Linkov
2010-09-01 6:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-01 22:05 ` Juri Linkov
2010-09-02 7:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-03 18:30 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-03 20:45 ` Juri Linkov
2010-08-30 0:46 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-31 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2010-08-31 1:42 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-31 22:43 ` Juri Linkov
2010-10-30 20:59 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-31 0:23 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-31 22:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-01 16:11 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-01 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-01 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-01 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-02 3:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-01 21:31 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-01 22:03 ` Drew Adams
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