Re: Emacs Package Management

[Stefan Monnier]

Stephen> ELPA is a nice starting point. But I think it is
Stephen> disproportionally easy to download packages, as opposed to
Stephen> submitting them. For single files, I would very much like to
Stephen> have a M-x submit-package, and have it do anything required to
Stephen> upload it, adding licenses and so on.

> Yeah.  I would like this too, but that would mean finding time to write
> the web app and everything else :-)

For the FSF-hosted repository of packages, I'd want all the packages
to be version controlled, so the "submit-package" would be nothing else
than "bzr commit" (but yes, some extra code would need to be written to
automatically build a tarball out of the newly committed code, ...).

> Yes, this is something that package.el provides.  One thing that would
> be nice is to have Emacs also advertise the packages it provides -- that

Indeed, we'd of course want that, if/once we provide such
a package system.  But that should be easy.


        Stefan