From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:20:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iony6n3x.fsf@fx.delysid.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvegym3v15.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:58:53 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Why did I need to read the Lisp source to figure out how to checkout
>> a single package from externals?
>
> I wouldn't know. I made it as simple as I could, because I don't have
> much time to devote to it and nobody else seemed interested in spending
> time on it, whereas I think GNU ELPA is very important for Emacs.
I am actually rather motivated to work on ELPA, but I am too green to do
any infrastructure changes just yet.
THat said, what might be confusing is the "externals/" prefix, since it
suggests that the package is really externally maintained. As it
stands, we seem to use separate branches for packages to keep history
apart, which is a valid enough reason with big packages methinks. We
*could* clear up that confusion by using another branch prefix, like
"packages/" to indicate that these are really packages native to the ELPA repo.
I also find the instructions to generate archives locally which include
externals a bit too verbose. I'd rather prefer to have a make target
that does all the work, so that it becomes more easy to test-build a
package living in a separate branch locally.
--
CYa,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-18 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-12 19:23 [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual Mario Lang
2014-06-14 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-14 18:48 ` Mario Lang
2014-06-14 19:08 ` Mario Lang
2014-06-14 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-14 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-18 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-18 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-18 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 18:20 ` Mario Lang
2014-06-18 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-18 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 2:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-06-19 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-18 19:20 ` Mario Lang [this message]
2014-06-18 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 3:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-19 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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