Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph

[Stephen Leake]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Adam [2022-03-31 23:28:15] wrote:
>> On 3/31/22 08:48, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> AFAIK the users *should* already be able to see the
>>> README if they use a recent enough Emacs.
>>> IOW if that doesn't work, please file a bug report.
>> Is this something that is exclusive to ELPA?
>
> No.
>
>> I am able to view READMEs of certain ELPA packages, but no packages
>> from MELPA (including elquery) have READMEs available locally, on
>> 29.0.50.
>
> To view the README, it has to be included in the tarball, so it will
> depend on the MELPA recipe.

Currently, package-menu-describe-package (bound to '?' in *Packages*)
assumes that the README is available locally if the package is
installed. That could be relaxed; it could fetch it from the repository
if not found locally.

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-- Stephe