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Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?)
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Filipp Gunbin |
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Re: What's Elpa? (I.e. what did you decide the name refers to?) |
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Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:58:19 +0300 |
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On 08/01/2015 06:27 +0000, Kelly Dean wrote:
> In general usage, it now seems to mean a particular repository (the
> one at elpa.gnu.org), with others being Melpa and Marmalade. Unless
> this is another case of my limited reading comprehension abilities.
What general usage do you mean?
> It's much easier to substitute a few words in a source code file than
> to change people's habits, so despite the name apparently being
> general originally, maybe it would be clearer to pick a new name to
> use in package.el (and for general usage) for the general sense, and
> let ‟Elpa” mean the repository at elpa.gnu.org.
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> Or insist that people say ‟GNU elpa” for that one? Then there's ‟Melpa
> elpa” and ‟Marmalade elpa”. Cumbersome.
http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ - it's GNU ELPA there.
Why can't "Melpa" be just a shortcut for "Melpa elpa?"
Filipp