From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Filipp Gunbin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:58:19 +0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420707644 4640 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2015 09:00:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 08 10:00:39 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 1Y98vO-0006WY-5P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:58:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y98vN-0002ZC-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y98vH-0002XC-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:58:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y98vC-0004Xs-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y98vC-0004XE-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E1A2072B for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 03:58:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:58:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= x-sasl-enc:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mesmtp; bh=iQNfJPvnqgFNgenK/ryCu5fbfgI=; b=TWwMbA5lFSgJkPHyVx RraDBjONHzYstv1EXR6KtIQVEU9zE2mlqnS44+6hxtcaOZwYcvXwJTYZLQUsN8HB U89gPHSupc12X+yETH4ZWnw4Q6J59lDPnRmoTRr3WcV4G4uSx5fmR2i7baeH/JwI fo4HC32vdF06EYNfgZJLSVX9Q= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=iQNfJPvnqgFNgenK/ryCu5 fbfgI=; b=Mb40kupbEFYX+ypXKwQP1i4NXevGvrTahhKOlcpAFN7Pakc5zLjfrb h3PkQqvFtTgDnVxjO5k2Pbfob1VuwiiFwDHuYN8udg9S7ysZ8a5bzqZ0pxvIxHr/ 3XzNwsH7p6L+kXGNCPIy3KkdPv2r0gSVlkWp+lEOiIPeFy7Q63/Zk= X-Sasl-enc: dSHxMtS6sBdRHSzCpXgRWulKPTwEtwbHdy9AOqcgYsIB 1420707503 Original-Received: from fgunbin.local (unknown [178.66.185.44]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AC5B66800F2; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 03:58:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:27:13 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.26 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:181053 Archived-At: On 08/01/2015 06:27 +0000, Kelly Dean wrote: > In general usage, it now seems to mean a particular repository (the > one at elpa.gnu.org), with others being Melpa and Marmalade. Unless > this is another case of my limited reading comprehension abilities. What general usage do you mean? > It's much easier to substitute a few words in a source code file than > to change people's habits, so despite the name apparently being > general originally, maybe it would be clearer to pick a new name to > use in package.el (and for general usage) for the general sense, and > let =E2=80=9FElpa=E2=80=9D mean the repository at elpa.gnu.org. > > Or insist that people say =E2=80=9FGNU elpa=E2=80=9D for that one? Then t= here's =E2=80=9FMelpa > elpa=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9FMarmalade elpa=E2=80=9D. Cumbersome. http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ - it's GNU ELPA there. Why can't "Melpa" be just a shortcut for "Melpa elpa?" Filipp