From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:33:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4257gsu.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <20160916203414.25203.87032@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87vaxsjmvu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <878tunj2wr.fsf@russet.org.uk> <874m582ixv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <871t0apsxm.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87shsm7hi6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83a8eucwi2.fsf@gnu.org> <878tudgwlq.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360pgoyo4.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1jn3ws9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83a8eqoi08.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1jlacsh.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475498074 22979 195.159.176.226 (3 Oct 2016 12:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:34:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 14:34:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1br2Ri-0003W3-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:34:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br2Rg-0003uB-JL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br2RU-0003sK-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br2RS-0004uN-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:33393) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br2RO-0004sd-C8; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:33:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=d4jL/4wdoFMjFhATKAK8JEIWhe3IB7XVJZn2yKfFSIE=; b=EOuLMdHRXBedS4tfPRUCNl4g7N hFVQgrIA1ws2vK9xQsPwk0jncPy+8sOdDdFb8XYFJEsNApj0nf6vi2q9pTwdP2r3oIyHkrTBZFsRB TZ5CWUGxTE4qo8kPkSVvnW2szNwDcQVPwpFaoi2MYC9TkgT1BKslwPuUd1d6PGFLjJcfKMl95oF1t Gm8ewqHWbTWzKFZTaFgPLOGCoYlC3HME2BeHQGeFWHeblaLGw/B6IoxkuJu3BCwklsUqSjy1ISnVk Fx1v/DOzsV/7sb7DDG1SMx0jRI/Lr+gcqdvdQ+EShiCd10daHi7+UDMGNyu79PKtBZBryYLtOdKyS WYLm6yyg==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-60.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.60]:46914 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1br2RN-003n09-Ep; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:33:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:30:21 -0700") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207962 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> "PL" == Phillip Lord writes: > > PL> Sure, but it cannot change the fact that ELPA and Emacs core have > PL> different organisations because Emacs has a unified (or monolithic > PL> depending on your POV) directory structure, while ELPA has a per-package > PL> structure. > > I understand that ELPA has per-package structure, but there's no requirement > for this to be a physical mapping. As long as we know which files within > EMACS corresponding to the package files within the EPLA package, this is > sufficient. > > So, if the mapping of EPLA-tree to Emacs-tree is not obvious by convention, we > could introduce a file to provide that mapping. It's doesn't need to be > either-or, simply because of current physical mappings. > > ELPA/foo/foo.el > ELPA/foo/doc/foo.doc > > could virtually map to: > > EMACS/lisp/foo.el > EMACS/doc/foo.doc > > by convention. Or more complex scenarios by a mapping file. Since we have a > full programming language at our behest, there is no limit to our > organizational capabilities. :) Yes, sure. But as Emacs is already capable of building and loading packages in package.el format, why not use that? Phil