Re: [ELPA] New package: package-classify

[david]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> david <davidimagid@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> david <davidimagid@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Emacs maintainers,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to submit my package "package-classify" to GNU ELPA.
>>>>
>>>> Copying in Stefan and Philip.
>>>
>>> As mentioned in <87ikoazm22.fsf@posteo.net>, I think we should consider
>>> improving on this in package.el, before we start collecting extensions
>>> on ELPA.
>>
>> I can do that—I could try to improve package.el by incorporating a patch
>> that addresses what I aimed to solve with package-classify. However, I
>> believe package-classify could still be useful for other Emacs users
>> while we work on improving package.el directly.
>
> I should mention that there has been the tentative plan of adding
> package.el itself to GNU ELPA, so if you are worries about user of older
> releases, we could mitigate the issue that way.

Understood. I’m on board. Would it make sense to continue this
discussion in Bug#76978
(https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=76978)? That way,
interested parties can follow up there, and I can ask more specific
technical questions about contributing to package.el.