Re: NonGNU ELPA: Conditions for accepting a potential new package 'rmsbolt' ?

[Jeremy Bryant]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> writes:
>
>> I would like to recommend the package 'rmsbolt' for NonGNU ELPA and
>> volunteer for any required changes.
>>
>> The author is Jay Kamat, who as I understand is potentially supportive
>> if the changes are minimal (and I am volunteering for these.)
>
> Minimal as in "small diff" or "small effort"?

I believe the author is supportive if the changes are a small effort.

>
>> 1. What is it?
>> "A supercharged implementation of the
>> [[https://github.com/mattgodbolt/compiler-explorer][godbolt
>> compiler-explorer]] for Emacs.
>>
>> RMSbolt tries to make it easy to see what your compiler is doing. It does 
>> this
>> by showing you the assembly output of a given source code file. It also
>> highlights which source code a given assembly block corresponds to, and vice
>> versa. It supports more types of languages than any previous tool of its 
>> kind.
>> "
>
> Sounds interesting.  I suppose the joke here is that RMS is God?

I believe Jay was inspired by https://godbolt.org/, authored by Matt
Godbolt

>
>> It is currently hosted on gitlab and distributed on MELPA.
>
> Could you provide a URL?

https://gitlab.com/jgkamat/rmsbolt