From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:15:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw5nn1k6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: RxfYhMLOAJLBcJGmazZHrcv4zVKGclUDUBYk89HPQBS@local
On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:27:13 +0000 Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org> wrote:
KD> In general usage, it now seems to mean a particular repository (the
KD> one at elpa.gnu.org), with others being Melpa and Marmalade. Unless
KD> this is another case of my limited reading comprehension abilities.
...
KD> Or insist that people say ‟GNU elpa” for that one? Then there's ‟Melpa elpa” and ‟Marmalade elpa”. Cumbersome.
KD> This isn't something that would normally matter, but it can cause misunderstanding when people say things like ‟a package in elpa”.
Yes. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/132634/focus=133017
for the full prior discussion, years ago.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-08 6:27 What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?) Kelly Dean
2015-01-08 8:58 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-01-08 12:28 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-08 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-08 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-08 14:40 ` Stephen Leake
2015-01-12 21:15 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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