RE: [External] : Re: NonGNU ELPA work

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I don't use GIT to manage my code.  I just post
> updates to EmacsWiki.  Nearly all of my code
> used to be on MELPA, but they stopped pulling
> from Emacs Wiki (my pages on the wiki are
> locked to all but the wiki admins, FWIW).

MELPA banned any packages from EmacsWiki on MELPA because it is insecure
to have automated installation of packages directly from a wiki.

https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/2342
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/7suq6d/melpa_has_stopped_distributing_insecure_emacswiki/

> As for overlap or redefinition of vanilla
> constructs: yes, that's no doubt a problem if
> someone expects to somehow integrate it with
> Emacs.  Loading some libraries redefines
> vanilla code.  Users of the code need to know
> that.

This is easy to fix by adding a prefix to your definitions.