[Orgmode] [WISH] ELPA repo for org-mode?

[Jambunathan K]

I think ELPA repository for orgmode-only packages (hosted where else but
on worg) could be quite useful. The idea came up in emacs-devel [1].

There has been a lot of enthusiasm surrounding org+google-weather. It
only shows how useful certain packages could be. My concern is they
shouldn't be lost in mailing list or blog posts or get hidden deep in a
emacswiki page ...

I wonder whether elpa packages are permitted to contain data files
(non-elisp files). Let's say, one is interested in exploring R or
haskell through babel or just interested in basic babel recipes, then it
would be more faster and importantly very effective if one could simply
connect to org's elpa and download the language-specific startupkits
[2].

I have found very good emacs packages through elpa which I would have
never found through emacswiki ... and I have been an emacs-user since
before emacswiki became quite prominent. 

An enthusiastic emacs/orgmode user,
Jambunathan K.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/129833

[2] Startupkits need not be just limited to literate programming
examples. It could even be sample agenda files that an entry-level user
could download, walk through and play with.

From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Google modules integration
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
To: address@hidden
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:36:30 -0500
Organization: Теодор Златанов @ Cienfuegos
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/129846>

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:56:09 +0200 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote: 

LB> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Stefan Monnier
LB> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> But to do the things correctly, that would mean the merge of the
>>> `google-maps.el' and `google-weather.el' modules into Emacs core
>> [...]
>>> The question is, therefore, is there a chance that we could merge these
>>> two extension into Emacs?
>> 
>> Without having thought much about it, my reaction is rather negative,
>> since we do not want to install packages dedicated to supporting
>> proprietary software.

LB> What about elpa? Could this perhaps be more relaxed regarding
LB> supporting proprietary software? Or should there be a special elpa
LB> repository for it? (Is that possible with the current elpa version?)

You can set up your own ELPA repo, sure.

I think it's better for org-mode to support a generic maps and weather
plugin so users can write Google-specific ones (and put them on their
own ELPA repos) but don't have to.

I was in a similar situation with Google Reader and planned to write an
interface to it until the much better gwene.org came along (thanks to
Lars) to let me read RSS feeds in a sensible way.

Ted