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RE: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, an
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Drew Adams |
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RE: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal) |
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Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:53:42 -0800 (PST) |
> Just to avoid confusion in the discussion: ELPA is the name of
> the general package distribution system, IOW the protocol
> between package.el and the web servers.
Really? I thought that ELPA stands for "Emacs Lisp Package
Archive", and it thus means a repository of Emacs-Lisp code.
I think of `package.el', not ELPA, as something that provides
(the basis for) the "package system".
Perhaps Tom T. has something to offer about the terminology?
> There are several servers which follow this protocol, such as
> Marmalade, MELPA, and GNU ELPA.
Several ELPAs, several Emacs-Lisp repositories. And yes, a
"repository" can include the ways of accessing it, including,
for example, a web server.
> IIUC by "ELPA" above I guess you mean GNU ELPA (since "ELPA
> and MELPA" would otherwise combine with "and" two things
> of different nature).
That's my thought too - GNU ELPA and MELPA are two ELPAs.
Marmalade is also an ELPA. There can be any number of ELPAs.
Presumably all will support the package system offered by
(supported by) `package.el', though in different ways.
- package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/07
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/07
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, joakim, 2014/11/07
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Phillip Lord, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/10
- Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/10
- package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/10
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/10
- RE: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal),
Drew Adams <=
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Nic Ferrier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/11
- Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/11