Maintaining octave.el

Maintaining octave.el

[Leo Liu]

Hi all,

I would like to maintain octave.el if no one objects. I have sent out an
email to octave-help detailing my plan:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/47927

I would also like to place octave.el in ELPA so that all emacs-24 users
can use it. Any thoughts on this? (for example how to avoid doing the
work twice?).

Leo

Re: Maintaining octave.el

[Glenn Morris]

Leo Liu wrote:

> I would also like to place octave.el in ELPA so that all emacs-24 users
> can use it. Any thoughts on this? (for example how to avoid doing the
> work twice?).

Put it solely in GNU ELPA?
I doubt that was the answer you wanted, but I always saw part of the
point of GNU ELPA as moving things out of "core", not in duplicating
things.

Re: Maintaining octave.el

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-04-30 00:03 +0800, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Put it solely in GNU ELPA? I doubt that was the answer you wanted, but
> I always saw part of the point of GNU ELPA as moving things out of
> "core", not in duplicating things.

Let me think about that. I'll see if there are many requests. There are
at the moment only half a dozen users interested in testing octave.el.

Leo

Re: Maintaining octave.el

[Glenn Morris]

Leo Liu wrote:

> On 2013-04-30 00:03 +0800, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Put it solely in GNU ELPA? I doubt that was the answer you wanted, but
>> I always saw part of the point of GNU ELPA as moving things out of
>> "core", not in duplicating things.
>
> Let me think about that. I'll see if there are many requests. There are
> at the moment only half a dozen users interested in testing octave.el.

Actually I suppose first the issue of how to integrate such packages
into releases should be addressed.

Another thing you could do is something like admin/org-synch.sh in the
elpa branch does, to install a "daily" snapshot into elpa. Maybe you
don't need that frequent.

Or keep it in trunk and elpa, and merge relevant changes into the elpa
branch.

Re: Maintaining octave.el

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-04-30 23:59 +0800, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Actually I suppose first the issue of how to integrate such packages
> into releases should be addressed.
>
> Another thing you could do is something like admin/org-synch.sh in the
> elpa branch does, to install a "daily" snapshot into elpa. Maybe you
> don't need that frequent.
>
> Or keep it in trunk and elpa, and merge relevant changes into the elpa
> branch.

octave.el should now work with older emacs-24 releases i.e. ready for
ELPA.

Leo

Re: Maintaining octave.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> Put it solely in GNU ELPA?

I definitely do not want to have it both in core and in ELPA at the
same time.  I don't have a strong opinion about whether we should keep
it in core or move it to ELPA.


        Stefan

Re: Maintaining octave.el

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-05-05 13:06 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I definitely do not want to have it both in core and in ELPA at the
> same time.  I don't have a strong opinion about whether we should keep
> it in core or move it to ELPA.

OK, for now I'll keep it in trunk.

Leo