Re: Where to put media demonstrating Gnu Elpa packages?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> It would be nice if Org mode can be used for this. We already have
>> ox-html in Emacs core.
>>
>> With a default CSS file for the GNU Elpa package pages, it should be
>> possible to have "homepages" for all packages with pics and videos.
>>
>> The GNU Elpa builder can look for README.org (or something like that) in
>> the package root dir. If present, it kicks of its export to HTML.
>
> Does that mean the preferred way of providing media would currently be
> to add the media files to the repository and to refer to the files from
> the documentation the package provides (file header or info)?

Probably not: elpa.gnu.org is a pretty feeble server, so it's fine to
serve HTML and tarballs, but it's definitely not fit to serve videos.


        Stefan