Re: ELPA

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> I would think that it only makes sense to have one Org-mode package in
> ELPA, namely the bleeding edge git version of Org-mode.

I disagree and my vote is still on 'maint', i.e. what a user would be
most likely to install if he was visiting orgmode.org.  Master changes
too often and might have experimental commits that later get reversed.
For anybody not following the mailing list this would be exactly the
wrong version to get through ELPA, especially since ELPA (at least in
standard configuration) does not notify about new versions.

> ELPA serves as a way to distribute packages which are not (or can't
> be) part of Emacs,

This is true of the current ELPA (tromey.com), but I feel the GNU ELPA
might take on an additional role: 1) easily obtaining packages that
would not normally come with the standard install of Emacs and 2)
keeping users updated on packages that are still developed and change
between releases.  Org-mode would fall into the second category since it
will probably stay in the standard package set. 

> Also, I would tend to think that this would make the most sense if we
> automate the ELPA integration s.t. every time a new revision is pushed
> up the to git repository, the ELPA version is automatically upgraded
> (with a git commit hook).  If this isn't currently possible in ELPA then
> I'd agree with a point Jambunathan makes in this thread that this is a
> trick we can help ELPA to learn.

Again, Emacs24 ELPA will be able to query multiple archives, something
that current ELPA can't.  So Emacs24 will by default look at
elpa.gnu.org and users should be able to find the latest stable version
there (it may not show up exactly in the minute it is released on
orgmode.org).  It should then be easy enough to configure ELPA (from
org-mode even?) to look for updates on orgmode.org first and get
bleeding edge from there if the user asks to do this.  If GNU ELPA
adopts a different package update policy then both the stable and
bleeding edge version would need to be on orgmode.org -- has anybody had
a chance to ask or followed the discussion on the emacs.devel list?


Achim.
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