Re: Emacs and the Status Notification Specification

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:02:50 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote: 

RS>     My point is that if it's an ELPA package, it can be easily used
RS>     (installed+activated) from XEmacs.

RS> That is true, but that is not a factor in our decision about whether
RS> to put this in ELPA.  It is neither here nor there.

Please call the GNU ELPA as such, or GELPA, or something besides just
"ELPA."  I remember we had this discussion before and I've tried to be
consistent, using "GNU ELPA" when I mean "GNU ELPA."

Here I specifically meant that it can be an ELPA-format package, meaning
it can be installed by package.el.  It can live anywhere, which is
even clearer in my original post:

Ted> This is somewhat related to the emacs-panel work I'm doing.  I propose
Ted> we either make a emacs-desktop ELPA package (on the GNU ELPA or
Ted> somewhere else) or we make a lisp/desktop/ directory in Emacs.  My
Ted> preference is for the former, so it can be used in XEmacs and in older
Ted> Emacs versions, and so its development is decoupled from the Emacs
Ted> releases.

So while I would like it to live in the GNU ELPA and will propose that
when the time comes, that's not connected to my preference for the ELPA
package format and the *Emacs portability it offers (not just XEmacs,
but also older versions of GNU Emacs).

Ted