From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New branch for elpa contents Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:12 -0500 Message-ID: <87vd3tia3b.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87pqu2h3ml.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hg9bdx4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290182011 15707 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2010 15:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 19 16:53:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJTHC-0002Sp-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:53:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJTH8-00014a-KJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35346 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJTH2-00014V-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJTH0-0002c5-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.101]:52837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJTH0-0002bz-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014113.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id oAJFrCgi008657 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:12 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CEE3B160854; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:53:12 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <877hg9bdx4.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:12:23 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132857 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > Do you want to rename it to ELLE or make a new branch so named? Let's stick with elpa. > I'll take a look at copying the existing stuff over. I think it > should be structured like this: > > packages/ > scripts/ > admin/ > html/ > etc/ > > with the corresponding files from elpa.gnu.org inside. Bootstrapping > a mirror should be as simple as checking it out and running > scripts/deploy.sh or "make deploy" or something like that, based on a > single environment variable ELPA_DEPLOY_ROOT. That would let us > deploy a copy as part of the Emacs build process if we or users choose > to, or let distros or third parties package such deployments. > > Would you rather do it my way or put just the packages in the branch? Your plan sounds good; if you want to go ahead and move the files, please go ahead. I don't think we need etc/ or scripts/, the scripts and everything else can go into admin/ or a subdirectory of admin/. Also, we should add README and COPYING files to the top-level directory. Using a shell script for deployment makes more sense than using a Makefile. We don't need to use an environment variable; just make it an argument for the shell script.