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Re: ELPA update
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: ELPA update |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:30:48 -0500 |
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:05:30 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I second that. Currently, I don't use GNU's ELPA but have a checkout of
>> the emacs elpa branch that I update and "make site" daily, and then I
>> add the "elpa/packages/<foo>/" dirs of the packages I'm interested into
>> my load-path manually. That completely defeats the purpose of a package
>> manager...
SM> BTW here's a few things about GNU ELPA, some of which are calls for help:
SM> - We need someone to write some script that can split a stream of "elpa
SM> commit email messages" and dispatch them to the respective
SM> package maintainers.
SM> I consider this very important and urgent and would really welcome
SM> help on this.
Please post here or send me directly a sample of the input and I'll
write this splitter.
SM> - We need to improve the "make site" so that the compile warnings aren't
SM> drowned with everything else.
SM> - We need to improve the "make archive" so it includes a ChangeLog in
SM> each package.
I don't know enough, especially considering your recent notes about
removing ChangeLogs, to help here.
SM> - I'd like to push GNU ELPA as a kind of "Savannah for Elisp".
SM> That means I encourage package maintainers to use elpa's Bzr as their
SM> official VCS repository. This currently means that any package
SM> maintainer needs to be a member of the `emacs' group and gets write
SM> access not just to his package but also to other packages and to
SM> Emacs. I'm not sure how well this is going to scale, but let's
SM> be optimistic.
See my proposal in this thread about signing commits with a private key,
which should alleviate this permissions problem.
Ted
- ELPA update, Julien Danjou, 2011/09/27
- Re: ELPA update, Chong Yidong, 2011/09/27
- Re: ELPA update, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Julien Danjou, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Julien Danjou, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, PJ Weisberg, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/09/28
- Re: ELPA update, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/29
- Re: ELPA update, Julien Danjou, 2011/09/29