From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Merging Finder into package mechanism
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:08:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbie8ppy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
package.el has a variable `package--builtins-base' which defines
packages built into Emacs. This is similar, but not identical, to the
Finder conception of a package. I would like to remove the discrepancy.
As part of this, I also want to eliminate some of the useless entries
that currently show up in Finder. For instance, Finder gives cc-vars.el
a separate entry from cc-mode.el, which is not very useful. All the
cc-*.el files should get a single entry, under the "cc-mode" package.
Eventually, finder-by-keyword should allow searching for elpa packages
as well as built-in packages.
The proposed technical steps are as follows. First, merge
`finder-package-info' and `package--builtins-base' into a single
variable. This is a backward-incompatible change, but I think that's
acceptable, since third-party code is unlikely to make use of
`finder-package-info'.
Second, alter `finder-compile-keywords' to recognize files that are part
of multi-file built-in packages. I propose to do this by adding an
optional "Package:" file header, which says that the file is part of a
multi-file package. For instance, cc-vars.el can have the header
"Package: cc-mode". Files that we want to omit from Finder can have the
header "Package: emacs".
Thoughts?
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-28 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-28 20:08 Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-08-28 20:34 ` Merging Finder into package mechanism Drew Adams
2010-08-28 23:38 ` Juri Linkov
2010-08-29 1:44 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-31 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
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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