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Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?)
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?) |
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Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:15:05 -0500 |
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:27:13 +0000 Kelly Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
KD> In general usage, it now seems to mean a particular repository (the
KD> one at elpa.gnu.org), with others being Melpa and Marmalade. Unless
KD> this is another case of my limited reading comprehension abilities.
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KD> Or insist that people say ‟GNU elpa” for that one? Then there's ‟Melpa
elpa” and ‟Marmalade elpa”. Cumbersome.
KD> This isn't something that would normally matter, but it can cause
misunderstanding when people say things like ‟a package in elpa”.
Yes. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/132634/focus=133017
for the full prior discussion, years ago.
Ted