From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#59609: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:04:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83pmd9ssp7.fsf@gnu.org> <831qf8yj2l.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12237"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 59609@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 08 17:06:23 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qed3v-0002vx-BR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:06:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qed3a-00009Q-BU; 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Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:04:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: <831qf8yj2l.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:269780 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > It's a good starting point, but the copyright assignment issue is not > the only issue (not even the main one, from my POV). The main issue > with NonGNU ELPA, IMO, is that packages there don't necessarily adhere > to the Emacs coding conventions, are not supervised by the Emacs > maintainers, and do not have to coordinate their development decisions > with the Emacs team. So their integration into Emacs could be less > seamless than that of packages from GNU ELPA. Thanks, based on that I ended up with this: modified doc/emacs/package.texi @@ -35,10 +35,20 @@ Packages name of a package, and displays a help buffer describing the attributes of the package and the features that it implements. - By default, Emacs downloads packages from a package archive -maintained by the Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project. -Optionally, you can also download packages from archives maintained by -third parties. @xref{Package Installation}. + By default, Emacs downloads packages from GNU ELPA +(@url{https://elpa.gnu.org/}) and NonGNU ELPA +(@url{https://elpa.nongnu.org/}), two package archives maintained by +the Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project. @dfn{GNU ELPA} +contains packages that are available for use with Emacs, but are +distributed separately from Emacs itself. @dfn{NonGNU ELPA} contains +a selection of third-party packages that are not supervised by the +Emacs maintainers, do not necessarily adhere to the Emacs coding +conventions, and do not coordinate their development decisions with +the Emacs team. They have been selected to be useful to many people, +but their integration into Emacs could be less seamless than that of +packages from GNU ELPA. Optionally, you can also download packages +from archives maintained by third parties. @xref{Package +Installation}.