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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: ELPA commit freeze |
Date: | Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:51:06 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 |
On 21.08.2013 23:00, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Please fix those README files in `elpa'.You mean to make these changes local?Either that, or make the formulation such that it works in both cases.
That would work, assuming this text doesn't show up in `describe-buffer', see below.
I'd rather not have any unnecessary local changes, in general, and doing things differently from Melpa doesn't seem like a good idea either.In which way is it different?
They intentionally don't use external README* files for generating package-readme.txt. I've mentioned that before:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00428.htmlI guess elpa's main difference here is that you also display these texts on the elpa.gnu.org/packages/ "homepages".
Maybe they should be different: a homepage can list [different] installation options, but the contents of a `describe-package' buffer don't need any of them.
My point is, let's go back to using Commentary from <package-name>.el. If any those descriptions seem lacking to you, let's improve them instead, and others will be able to benefit from that, too.I can't think of any reason why the README file should have any significantly different content, since its role in places like github is pretty much the same anyway.
See above.
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