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: How often do we have new packages in Whichever ELPA? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tud126gk.fsf@posteo.net> 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="34782"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rudolf Schlatte Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 05:57:58 2022 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 1nLHoh-0008t2-Nc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:57:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48242 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHog-0006Ja-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHla-0002m6-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=47056 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 1nLHlZ-0002xV-9a; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:41 -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=ptDA4Z5ri4ydEcFti4yQmNPk6CVnFT+mWmr2ZKfap8Y=; b=WCPedQgVxWn6 J+SApOz5W3oL8HkhLuYIYK0AimR1MPvJ4+KyOxERwBsduSj7R2gvDnZpIRiHfTz1VbaJ7E7HqrqXO YMN5nStJwsY8PXOyCrpUTLIEBpZbSHRivvMtR8x4DyE55YwyTfjts5fGFmwY5HMGMoUDE4LdQLeyj F1KkBXxDWmD1frh/SxdItQp+XlxQL7SxwkRGXiRAq7GPt3K9X1P6eY/viPLQ/cilO+IUkl3tot4yD f8AnNii8qA9g+jIpqlC8v5v1Hp9kkXHhY790oMl3yNifD6LnKydTT7wfi9ontpBmVT7O//y1PYarv PlxICbvKt+ZXexYhYaKfZg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHlY-0004nF-D1; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Rudolf Schlatte on Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:42:41 +0100) 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:286449 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. ]]] > I think the best place is within Emacs itself, and it is implemented. > When I run `list-packages', all new packages are listed at the beginning > of the resulting buffer, clearly marked as `new' and with a one-line > description. It sounds like the only drawback of that method of informing people is that it depends on them to run `list-packages' from time to time. -- 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)