Re: Adding packages to ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:09:15 -0500
> 
> > No, I mean that a package that is part of Emacs can be used to create
> > a separate tarball disregarding the rest of Emacs.  After all, once
> > you checkout the repo, they are just file in a certain directory.
> 
> How would the typical Emacs/ELPA user use that "separate tarball"?
> 
> Currently, to release a new version of Ada mode, I just update the elpa
> repository, incrementing the version in ada-mode.el header.
> 
> Then users will see the new version when they next do 'list-packages',
> and can install from there.
> 
> What would that process look like if I followed your approach?

The same.  If you are saying that list-packages currently doesn't
support the Emacs repo, we should modify it so it does.  It's just
another repo, after all, there's nothing magic about it.