Re: [ELPA] New package: devdocs

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 10:09, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> [About the silly name: "devdocs" is already taken by a MELPA package.
>> That package is quite different and doesn't provide a viewer; it simply
>> calls `browse-url' on a suitable https://devdocs.io location.]
>
> AFAICT that MELPA package hasn't seen any activity in the last 4 years
> and is *very* simple.  Any chance you could make yours be a superset of
> that one and then ask its author if he minds that you take that name
> (basically, ask him to pass maintainership to you)?
>
>
>         Stefan

All right, the author of the existing "devdocs" package agreed to hand
over maintainership[1].  I just reimplemented myself the one command
provided by that old package, so there should be no copyright questions.

The git repository of my package is now at https://github.com/astoff/devdocs.el

[1]: https://github.com/xuchunyang/DevDocs.el/issues/4