From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Does Elpa welcome themes? Or should those stay in Melpa? Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:27:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20150116195627.GL20877@ahungry.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421450897 9244 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2015 23:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: M Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 00:28:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YCGJH-0005Gi-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:28:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCGJG-0007qg-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:28:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCGJC-0007qP-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCGJ7-00027D-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:17991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCGJ7-00024P-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:28:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsPAOwQflS4rwoL/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQcBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBjkaDaxCPY4IKgXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AjsPAOwQflS4rwoL/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQcBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBjkaDaxCPY4IKgXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="108021296" Original-Received: from 184-175-10-11.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.10.11]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 16 Jan 2015 18:27:59 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 72CA6260B; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:27:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20150116195627.GL20877@ahungry.com> (M.'s message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:56:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181354 Archived-At: > I notice that there aren't any other themes in Elpa (or if so, I'm > missing them). Indeed I think there aren't any currently. > Is this primarily due to reluctance in assigning copyright to FSF by > theme maintainers or a preference by Elpa to keep them out of the base > Elpa/Emacs? At least it's not because we don't want them in GNU ELPA. > On a related note, if I want to continue hosting the code at the > current URL and also clone it into the Elpa repository, would it be > better to do it as an "external" type or a "subtree" type? If you want my preference, for small packages, I prefer the "subtree" kind, but it's your call. Stefan