Re: [announce] The new website for GNU ELPA is online

[Nicolas Petton]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Nicolas,

Hi Dmitry,

> A couple of notes:
>
> - The logo (both versions) looks a little blurry to me, like the text's 
> edges in "ξlpa" are less definite than in "GNU Emacs Lisp Package 
> Archive" below it. Although that might have everything to do with me 
> using a 4K monitor.

Oh, yes, most probably.  I don't have such a monitor, but I'll ask a
colleague to see by myself.

> - The phrase "Since you'll probably want to use your installed packages, 
> ..." is a bit jarring.
>
> First, you _can_ use most of the packages (maybe not all (?), but close) 
> without that, as long as you limit the relevant configuration to 
> add-hook, eval-after-load, setq and auto-mode-alist entries.
>
> In fact, I recommend adding `global-company-mode' (a global mode 
> function) to `after-init-hook' instead of evaluating it directly. That 
> works whether (package-initialize) is in the user's init script, or not.
>
> But if we do consider it a good practice, writing about it in a "by the 
> way" fashion on ELPA's website seems odd. A technical solution seems in 
> order.

Indeed!  I haven't changed any content yet, I only did cosmetic changes.

If you (or others) have other remarks regarding the content of the
website, let me know :-)

Cheers,
Nico

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