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Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads |
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Sat, 8 Jul 2017 10:57:52 -0400 |
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On 2017-07-07 21:59, John Wiegley wrote:
> I have a feeling that a lot of package authors choose MELPA because
> the barrier to entry is so low, and they may not realize how easy it
> is to get it into Emacs as well.
It's not that they doesn't realize how easy it is: it's that it's not easy.
Getting into MELPA requires a writing a one-line Lisp form and submitting it
for inclusion. Getting into ELPA requires subtle git invocations that end up
mashing up the history of your project with that of tens of others, while
fearing to break the entire ELPA repo because of a missing copyright line in a
test file.
And ELPA makes maintaining the package more painful, too: picking out the
commits made by others and copying them on your personal repo requires further
arcane git invocations — same for importing new commits from your personal
repo. And of course you lose other MELPA goodies, like getting download
statistics.
For now, the main motivation to publish on ELPA is ideological — not practical.
My feeling is that package authors chose not to publish on ELPA because they
get all they need from MELPA, for a fraction of the invested time.
Clément.
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, (continued)
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/23
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/11
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Yuri Khan, 2017/07/12
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/12
- emacs.org website [was Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads], Glenn Morris, 2017/07/12
- Re: emacs.org website [was Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads], Richard Stallman, 2017/07/13
- Re: emacs.org website [was Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads], John Wiegley, 2017/07/15
- emacs.org website [was Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads], Glenn Morris, 2017/07/12
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Ken Manheimer, 2017/07/10
- Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/10
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Joost Kremers, 2017/07/10
Improving GNU ELPA (was: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads), Stefan Monnier, 2017/07/11