Re: [ELPA] New package: calibre.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Kjartan Óli Águstsson <kjartanoli@outlook.com> writes:

> Kjartan Óli Águstsson <kjartanoli@outlook.com> writes:
>
>>> This means you should copy the metadata to calibre.el.  Especially the
>>> dependency list.  (Also, why do you depend on "29.1.0", a version which
>>> is unreleased and has an additional ".0" at the end?  I guess you need
>>> Emacs 29 because of SQLite?  Have you taken a look at emacsql?)
>>
>> I'll definitely fix the .0 thing.  You are correct that the dependency
>> on Emacs 29 is for SQLite.  Emacsql would not work, since I am
>> interacting with an existing database maintained by Calibre.  If you
>> want to wait until Emacs 29 is released to add it I would definitely
>> agree to that.
>
> I've done some more work on this.  The most significant one being the
> addition of a backend/database interface that uses the calibredb
> executable instead of parsing the SQLite database directly.  Combined
> with compat this should lower the minimum required Emacs version to 27.
> Are there any other things that would block calibre.el's inclusion in
> GNU ELPA?

I don't think so, but I have forgotten the details of the proposal.  You
have signed your FSF CA, right?  Also, could you give me the URL again?