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 to distribute dynamic modules by themselves? Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:29:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <951567BE-B2FA-4224-A369-B96469D2E083@gmail.com> <87y210apam.fsf@gnus.org> 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="21315"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuan Fu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 04:29:57 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 1nXaeB-0005KK-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 04:29:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37338 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXae9-00039f-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXadO-0001og-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=58244 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 1nXadO-0003En-Et; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:29:06 -0400 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=RWGXDFAtLZxfQ1/JfgONmNvtR+dUJqjiw7OLc8/hblY=; b=PLwdnbI6NXWx fVDoOpLPboPGV0mePBBwpz2tGjNnoUKd72ZumtKc8DdWmansUNYQ/P5ABGp3E+CcYTP9HW5w6+1NQ 9lzl9FjrwtbrmZ3I0NO7PMskbeJBuV+ull5VrmhXtPRoIOZ9YhtvcEu4JK1L6JoSfvs4cYNG5R+8E d89LSVUl+r6cNzy92cXljxzFygmbczoKttQJHYnhOb5BXnh9yS7+9HfKTHQ3TY+Q3zNevLa1oNTMY Im/uEalY5fHYTWKRRCPv+TtXw/2LpV3X79D5Wv1Bl0npk72dkJO09e7eyE1mogiP1Hnk/OrzAC/JN QOK2jFlRsg7DBl0+H5HUWA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXadN-0005Ta-1W; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:29:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuan Fu on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:48:12 -0700) 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:287429 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. ]]] > Just a thought, can I put pre-built modules on ELPA Do you mean, the dynamic module itself? Which machines would you build it for? Which systems? I worry that you'd be undertaking a task that could expand without bounds. so others can > download the module and require it by writing some boilerplate > code? Just like what I would distribute the module through GitHub > release. Github is a bad choice, for moral reasons -- see https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html for explanation of why. How about choosing a better repo? -- 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)