From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ELPA and EmacsWiki Updates Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:05:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1188765510.729484.116910@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188768395 16306 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2007 21:26:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:26:35 +0000 (UTC) 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 23:26:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IRwxj-0001iH-2B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:26:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRwxh-000587-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRwxU-00057i-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRwxT-00057U-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRwxS-00057R-Vs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRwxS-0003FO-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IRwxI-0001dX-6Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:26:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.189.193.185 ([207.189.193.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:26:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tromey by 207.189.193.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:26:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.189.193.185 X-Attribution: Tom User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qZvIcuRJREUlksl8gbGsk2e6WGs= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47118 Archived-At: >>>>> "Nordlöw" == Nordlöw writes: Nordlöw> I am using a lot of Emacs Extensions from EmacsWiki for example the Nordlöw> brilliant Icicles. Can ELPA or some other package automatically Nordlöw> synchronize/update my copies of these extensions with some nice Emacs Nordlöw> Package? There is some other installer on the wiki that might help here. I don't know, I haven't used it (since it doesn't have the features I want). FWIW, the reason that Icicles is not in ELPA is that the Icicles author did not want it there. As for other things not being in ELPA, the general reason for this is that I probably haven't gotten around to it yet. Smaller (single file) packages tend to require some comment fixes first, and I'm not always clear on what people actually use (and what therefore would be worthwhile to upload). Larger packages often require some extra preparation. And, finally, I like to coordinate with maintainers so that: * Any needed patches go upstream * The package has a "nice" activation approach (autoloads comments in place, whatever), and * so that maintainers know to send me new versions when released I'm happy to have help with any or all of this :-). If there's enough demand I'll move the ELPA repository to a site like savannah so that other folks can do uploads as well. Tom