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Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs
From: |
Alexander Adolf |
Subject: |
Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:57:48 +0200 |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>
> > Finally, a few thoughts on packages and curation. As of this writing,
> > the combined list of ELPA, MELPA, and builtin packages of my current
> > emacs lists 5,065 packages. Chances are, whatever topic you're looking
> > at, there's more than one package. Which one is the best for my
> > purposes?
>
> MELPA will not be included in whatever we set up.
> MELPA does not cooperate with us, so we don't support it.
No worries, I was only trying to make the point that there is a large
number of packages out there, and that there is a non-negligible chance
that there will be more than a single package for each use-case.
Let's evolve ELPA according to what we, the community agree upon, and
the other package archives may follow if they choose.
> > Users can do "add to favourites" for a module. When one
> > browses the modules, the number of users who faved it is shown. Not
> > perfect, but a rule-of-thumb estimate for a module's popularity.
>
> A package repository web site could have a feature like this, but we
> want access to the packages to be read-only and anonymous in the usual
> case. That is a matter of respecting privacy.
> [...]
Fully agree. Favourites can only be granted by registered users of a
package repository web site. But there's no reason the reading of the
favourites count of a package couldn't be read-only and anonymous. This
is exactly how CPAN works, btw.
Cheers,
--alexander
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, (continued)
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/23
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/26
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/21
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs,
Alexander Adolf <=
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/22
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/25
- RE: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Drew Adams, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/26
- RE: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Drew Adams, 2020/09/26
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/26
- RE: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Drew Adams, 2020/09/27
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/27
- RE: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Drew Adams, 2020/09/28
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/28