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bug#65027: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Document .elpaignore behavior in the Emacs L


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#65027: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Document .elpaignore behavior in the Emacs Lisp manual
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 15:02:12 -0700

On 8/3/2023 2:21 PM, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
Maybe it would make sense to put all the documentation in the Emacs Lisp
manual, and then the GNU ELPA README can be the home for documentation about
how to work with the GNU ELPA repository specifically (mainly as an
administrator).

FWIW, that's how it started.  It's just that some of the conventions
originally used only in (Non)GNU ELPA have now made their way into
`package.el`.

As a general guideline for documentation, I'm thinking that anything a package author puts in their own repository would get documented in the Emacs Lisp manual, whereas anything that goes in the (Non)GNU ELPA repository (e.g. in the elpa-packages file) goes in the ELPA README. That makes intuitive sense to me as a package author at least: then the Emacs Lisp manual would have everything I need to *prepare* my package for eventual inclusion in ELPA.





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