Re: Adding to ELPA?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> On 9 Oct 2015 4:28 pm, "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, the list server seems to be really, really, slow right
>> now.  At any rate, would it be the correct way of proceeding to just
>> push the following commit to ELPA?  Just like that?
>
> If you've done it before, then yes, pretty much.
> If you haven't, showing the patch here (like you just did) is a good idea
> to make sure you're doing it right.
>
> You can also bring it here if you're unsure whether it's GElpa material
> (whatever that means). Maybe we should request that people always mention
> it here before uploading new packages, just to make sure it's not
> replicating an existing one.
>
> As for your code, I noticed two things.
> 1. See other packages for the copyright line used.

Ah yes, of course.  It would need to be assigned.

> 2. You need to depend on cl-lib 0.5 and require it (probably at compile
> time).

Why?  It's autoloaded.  The problem is more that I am fuzzy on what
Emacs versions to require here if any.  Until rather recently, Emacs
tended to lose events placed into unread-command-events when they were
arriving not one-by-one.  With many MIDI input applications (but not
necessarily all) that's going to end up a problem.

If I require a sufficiently new Emacs version (I don't think any
released version suffices), the cl-lib dependency should be a non-issue.

-- 
David Kastrup