Re: NonGNU ELPA

[Daniel Martín]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> I have a first cut up now.

Thanks for working on this!

> The repository is at ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/emacs/nongnu.git

This SSH address does not work here because it requires authentication.
Does it need a Savannah account, by chance?  I simply wanted to clone
the repository anonymously, so I "discovered"
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/nongnu.git and issued a

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/nongnu.git

to make my computer clone the repo.  Sorry if this is a well-known
workflow that is the same as in GNU ELPA, I'm not familiar with Emacs
package repositories.

> and the archive is currently at https://elpa.gnu.org/nongnu/
>

Is there a plan to include this package archive by default in a future
version of Emacs?  That is, something like

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("nongnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/nongnu/";))

If so, then I have a potential feature once we have a few language modes
in NonGNU ELPA (I see there's already Markdown and OCaml): When you open
a file with ".md" extension for the first time, Emacs will ask whether
you want to install markdown-mode from NonGNU ELPA, instead of opening
the Markdown file in fundamental-mode.  Does this make sense?  To make
it really useful, as the cadence of Emacs releases and NonGNU ELPA
changes will surely be different, we'd somehow need to implement it in a
way that does not couple the Emacs source code to the language mode
packages available in NonGNU ELPA, if that's possible.