From: Ted Zlatanov Subject: Re: Google modules integration Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:36:30 -0500 Organization: §´§Ö§à§Õ§à§â §©§Ý§Ñ§ä§Ñ§ß§à§Ó @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87r5h24hhd.fsf@lifelogs.com> Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:56:09 +0200 Lennart Borgman wrote: LB> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Stefan Monnier LB> wrote: >>> But to do the things correctly, that would mean the merge of the >>> `google-maps.el' and `google-weather.el' modules into Emacs core >> [...] >>> The question is, therefore, is there a chance that we could merge these >>> two extension into Emacs? >> >> Without having thought much about it, my reaction is rather negative, >> since we do not want to install packages dedicated to supporting >> proprietary software. LB> What about elpa? Could this perhaps be more relaxed regarding LB> supporting proprietary software? Or should there be a special elpa LB> repository for it? (Is that possible with the current elpa version?) You can set up your own ELPA repo, sure. I think it's better for org-mode to support a generic maps and weather plugin so users can write Google-specific ones (and put them on their own ELPA repos) but don't have to. I was in a similar situation with Google Reader and planned to write an interface to it until the much better gwene.org came along (thanks to Lars) to let me read RSS feeds in a sensible way. Ted