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Some Elpa packages don't provide a feature |
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Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:34:37 +0100 |
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The following Elpa packages do not provide a feature: `ada-ref-man',
`transcribe', and `uni-confusables'. I believe all packages should
contain a library which provides the appropriate feature.
`transcribe' additionally violates many other conventions. The various
section headers lack the space after the semicolons. Not a single
symbol is properly prefixed or documented. It should probably be
removed.
`load-relative' also doesn't provide its feature using `provide', but
that is intentional - it uses the alternative `provide-me' form, which
it itself defines. I cannot really see what's so great about being
able to write `(provide-me)' instead of `(provide 'the-feature)', but
some people obviously thought it that was a good idea. Anyway, should
`load-relative' itself really use `provide-me'?
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Re: bug#22055: Some Elpa packages don't provide a feature |
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Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:34:53 +0000 |
Closing the bug then.
2015-12-12 19:36 GMT+00:00 Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>:
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> Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:
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>> 2015-12-03 14:34 GMT+00:00 Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>:
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>>> Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:
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>>>>> `load-relative' also doesn't provide its feature using `provide', but
>>>>> that is intentional - it uses the alternative `provide-me' form, which
>>>>> it itself defines.
>>>>
>>>> I can't see the benefit but I also can't see the harm. Did it affect you
>>>> negatively in any way?
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>>> No, I just cannot mirror it on the Emacsmirror, but that does not really
>>> matter because I also could not mirror any other package which uses
>>> `provide-me'. I extract metadata for all mirrored packages, including
>>> the provided features, and the respective code does not support
>>> `provide-me'. I don't intend to support that form until at least halve
>>> a dozen packages use it.
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>> Well, I couldn't find a package Gelpa or Melpa that uses it. So I
>> think it's not really a big deal either way. =P
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> Yeah, I'll deal with it when the need arises.
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