Re: [External] : file metadata

[Christopher Howard]

May I ask, hopefully with sounding antagonistic, why you prefer to maintain 
your library on EmacsWiki rather than a git repository some where?

In the Guix distribution packaging is it is very easy to pull a library from a 
git repository, as well as automatically check for updates, whereas there is 
not tooling to scan a wiki page and try to figure what are the correct files 
and whether the library has changed recently. I'm sure this is why the Guix 
emacs-bookmark-plus package depends on the out-of-date GitHub mirror. I think 
the wiki itself is a git repository, but even if one wanted to download the 
whole wiki, the library files are not sequestered into some distinct directory 
where they are easy for the tooling to deal with.

You could of course say that people are free to mirror the files themselves if 
they want to, but that brings us back to where we are now — a mirror that has 
not been kept up-to-date.

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Christopher Howard