From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k6wsajh.fsf@posteo.net> <87o8536fry.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10155"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, philipk@posteo.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 05:20:01 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1n1hUO-0002UT-ER for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:20:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60240 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hUN-0001Mx-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hQ0-0001Ki-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45060 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hQ0-0003Gt-9g; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=8jMOBCBC0Ne8ddNO9g0X02egZZfdPXjxJCEmhqSq4h4=; b=GUUJwq1qwEYC vb+FrSOWCH6Ucui52IoJOhq4LPvjQxUuCzwzznH3P+VhPCvf1JIRKf4ZapdVuvcn6dfMeE59kHjK8 sZNIbmJ3NwbyCoLLBMJf9mZHzz7Yjsg/emvSR7PO+/v5PJ611DdEtqqBx8cRVTp10BIYyoaQIZH/l d9R2wYl2D7HwmmjbMF8EjLOMn3vD8J0NW0O7PpYYafgL0QWv9z09bGCsmQRG7BBXlJv8MyILPyhUt thtAiKXHWua1+wS/7zNDtxcepf80pWRyxJlv8c7uoLJcsbdZfof/cxB6PenM8I6Z6UfLH+o6kRd+S vhThxmdKI509PGGcwaDh2A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hQ0-0001dc-GH; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:48:47 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283385 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >From straight.el/README.md: Thanks for sending me this. > ## Features > * Install Emacs packages listed on [MELPA], [GNU ELPA][gnu-elpa], or > [Emacsmirror], or provide your own recipes. We do not want it to refer to MELPA or Emacsmirror. That would put us in the position of legitimizing nonfree packages, and treating that distinction as a side issue. Fixing this would not be a big change, or difficult, but that doesn't make it less important. > * Specify package descriptions using a powerful format based on [MELPA > recipes][melpa-recipe-format] (with a familiar but improved syntax). We would need to study the consequences of this feature, before deciding whether we ought to support something like this. What sorts of situations do people use it for? Why aren't packages directly usable in the form that they are published? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)