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Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el |
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Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:58:31 +0100 |
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Glenn Morris wrote:
> > 2) The documentation is handled appropriately. Currently it is documented
> > through some texinfo-formatted documentation [6]. Whereas ELPA packages,
> > as far as I can see, currently only have plain text documentation, which
> > is inferior to texinfo / hypertext formatted documentation.
>
> ELPA packages may contain info pages. Ref
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Multi_002dfile-Packages.html
Can ELPA packages also provide HTML-format documentation (generated from
texinfo sources) in a canonical way? HTML rendering is decent, 'info' rendering
in Emacs is inferior (use of fixed-width font for plain text, use of _xxx_
for @emph instead of slanted/italic face, etc.). Therefore I would want
to provide the documentation in HTML at least.
> Personally, I strongly recommend creating an ELPA package rather than
> adding to Emacs itself.
Hmm. I'm hearing mixed voices (Paul vs. Glenn).
> > 1) The responsibility of po-mode.el was transferred to the Emacs community
> > at the same time. Yes, it would be welcome if someone could take care
> > of
> > the 5 open bugs regarding the PO mode. [1][2][3][4][5]
>
> Simply moving the files to another repository (GNU Emacs or ELPA) won't
> create a maintainer for them. There is no GNU ELPA community AFAIK.
> Excepting perhaps Stefan, it seems to be individuals maintaining their
> own packages. Emacs itself has a small number of active people, but less
> used components can languish.
Would moving po-mode.el to emacs/lisp/ make it more probable that it gets
occasional attention and maintenance from developers familiar with Emacs Lisp,
than putting it in ELPA?
Bruno
- [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Alexandre Garreau, 2019/01/18
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Bruno Haible, 2019/01/19
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Paul Eggert, 2019/01/19
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Glenn Morris, 2019/01/19
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el,
Bruno Haible <=
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Alexandre Garreau, 2019/01/20
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Paul Eggert, 2019/01/25
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Stefan Monnier, 2019/01/26
- Re: [bug-gettext] ELPA and gettext.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/01/26