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Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism |
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:29:01 -0400 |
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Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> It's better to have all package information in one place.
> I suggest not to lose information that was in finder-inf.el.
It's a bit problematic. Moving the keywords into package--builtins
necessitates a change in the archive-contents file format, which means
incompatibility with the old elpa repository. This scheme also forces
key lookup to iterate over all packages, which seems inelegant.
The scheme I came up with is to put the keywords into a hash table, also
stored in finder-inf.el (further down in the file), which maps keywords
to package lists. True, this is not 100% satisfactory. What the
problem really wants is a database, but we can't rely on that.
Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/29