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Re: [External] : [ELPA] Package cleanup
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [External] : [ELPA] Package cleanup |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:35:56 -0400 |
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> I would like to assume that ELPA is a somewhat curated
> collection of packages. Perhaps not as rigorously tested
> and maintained as Emacs itself, but more so than some
> package on github that has not seen an update in 5 years.
That's not really the case, no :-(
I do make sure the packages compile, and try occasionally to clean up
the worst warnings, and when I make changes in Emacs I try to keep an
eye on GNU ELPA packages to update them correspondingly, but I think I'm
an exception in this regard.
> If the only virtue of being on ELPA is that I can install via
> package.el then that seems like rather thin gruel.
The other is that there's a plan to include some of those packages into
the standard Emacs tarball.
> Perhaps the bar for admission to ELPA is too low.
The main bar is for the package to be useful, harmless, and to have
copyright. I don't see a strong reason to make it much higher.
> Could we require automated tests that can be run regularly to confirm
> package health?
That would be great. But before requiring them, we need to setup a way
to run the already existing tests. Any help in this regard would be
most welcome.
Stefan
Re: [ELPA] Package cleanup, Richard Stallman, 2022/03/29