From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scot Becker Subject: Re: ELPA [WAS] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:52:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87tylcy6gw.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87hbhc5rtt.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87r5ggs6u6.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87tylce24o.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87iq1srzoj.fsf_-_@stats.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55922 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0Xnu-0004n9-A3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:52:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Xns-0008S9-U4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:52:58 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:42143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0Xns-0008S2-PR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:52:56 -0400 Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so5443374bwz.0 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:52:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87iq1srzoj.fsf_-_@stats.ox.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Dan Davison Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dan, I have no special expertise on this, but I'll hazzard an answer as a simple ELPA user: > Using ELPA does seem like an attractive route, especially if it > (package.el) is going to be in Emacs24. To me too, ELPA is a great idea. It probably needs some perfecting, but if it works for these purposes, we only help the perfecting by encouraging it's use. > - How much work would it take to put and maintain Org-mode on ELPA? I'll let someone else answer that, but I'd be suprised if it couldn't be automated. > - Would it make sense to have two different packages available via ELPA, To me, yes. I like using git for the development tree, but I expect that ELPA makes for a nice way for Windows users (and others who don't want to or can't use git) to get the latest version easily (and possibly even to downgrade if necessary). The latest release version is of course necessary as well, since using it is the main recommendation to new users. > - Will it be possible for the Org project to have control over the files An excellent and important question. We'd rather not be dependent on personal intervention from others to update, especially the '-latest' version. And even for the releases, we'd probably be glad to see them propagate to the repository pretty quickly. (The current non-gnu ELPA repo only updates every two weeks or so. This is fine for many projects, but probably not enough even for org-mode releases.) > - Will ELPA be able to get the info files installed suitably? In principle, yes. ELPA does concern itself with both the load-path and the info-path. Scot