Re: Multi-language package for ELPA

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm developing a package of Erlang development tools for Emacs that I would
> like to make available through ELPA (https://github.com/tjarvstrand/edts).

Please submit it to to emacs-devel@gnu.org, via M-x report-emacs-bug, or
directly to me.  We usually welcome new packages in GNU ELPA.

> The problem is that a lot of the features require one or more Erlang nodes
> with custom code to be running in the background. This Erlang code
> obviously has to be compiled as part of the package installation. Is there
> any way to accomplish that?

There is currently no specific support for that, but your package is not
unique in this respect and I'd be happy to extend package.el to provide
better support for that.  Also there are ways to "abuse" the current
system to get what you want, so you don't have to wait for a new
package.el to be widely deployed.


        Stefan