From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where to put media demonstrating Gnu Elpa packages? Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:27:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bm9lw23u.fsf@web.de> <87lg8lb5du.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535840775 12587 195.159.176.226 (1 Sep 2018 22:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 22:26:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 02 00:26:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fwELD-00033b-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:26:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwENJ-0006UC-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwEMs-0006Ne-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwEMn-000662-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34983 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwEMn-00064b-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:27:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fwEKb-0002JL-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:25:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:qGV+PwTg0xzZAhSXhNTw0FOnWYw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117807 Archived-At: >> It would be nice if Org mode can be used for this. We already have >> ox-html in Emacs core. >> >> With a default CSS file for the GNU Elpa package pages, it should be >> possible to have "homepages" for all packages with pics and videos. >> >> The GNU Elpa builder can look for README.org (or something like that) in >> the package root dir. If present, it kicks of its export to HTML. > > Does that mean the preferred way of providing media would currently be > to add the media files to the repository and to refer to the files from > the documentation the package provides (file header or info)? Probably not: elpa.gnu.org is a pretty feeble server, so it's fine to serve HTML and tarballs, but it's definitely not fit to serve videos. Stefan