From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:15:05 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87mw5nn1k6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421097254 6968 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2015 21:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:14:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 12 22:14:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YAmJK-00069T-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:14:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAmJJ-0002U2-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAmJ3-0002TW-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:13:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAmIy-0004PL-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAmIy-0004Ny-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YAmIv-0005zY-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:13:42 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:13:41 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:13:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JWMod6EN5ucMEQk8+slHfNZ5dAM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181195 Archived-At: On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:27:13 +0000 Kelly Dean 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