Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm

[Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 11:47 PM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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>   > I've created a new package called llm, for the purpose of abstracting
> the
>   > interface to various large language model providers.
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> Note that packages in core Emacs or in GNU ELPA
> should not depend on anything in NonGNU ELPA.
> If llm is meant for other packages to use,
> it should be in GNU ELPA, not NonGNU ELPA.
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> Why did you plan to put it in NonGNU ELPA?


The logic was the same logic you quote below (I'll explain better what my
point was below), but I agree that it would limit the use, so GNU ELPA
makes more sense.  Another factor was that I am using request.el, which is
not in GNU ELPA, so I'd have to rewrite it, which complicates the code.


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>   > I prefer that this is NonGNU, because I suspect people would like to
>   > contribute interfaces to different LLM, and not all of them will have
> FSF
>   > papers.
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> I don't follow the logic here.  It looks like the llm package is
> intended to be generic, so it would be used by other packages to
> implementr support for specific models.  If llm package is on GNU ELPA,
> it can be used from packages no matter how those packages are distributed.
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It wasn't about use, it's more about accepting significant code
contributions, which is less restricted with NonGNU ELPA, since I wouldn't
have to ask for FSF papers.


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> But if the llm package is in NonGNU ELPA, it can only be used from packages
> in NonGNU ELPA.
>
> Have I misunderstood the intended design?
>

You understood correctly.  This is a package designed to be used as a
library from other packages.

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