Re: [ELPA] New package: plz

[Adam Porter]

Hi Philip,

On 5/9/22 14:50, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>
> >  From d7ec5692547885f155007e7978d161aba3c3ad52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
> > Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 11:17:02 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] * elpa-packages (plz): New package
> >
> > ---
> >   elpa-packages | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
> > index 51c17bc..65bb6a0 100644
> > --- a/elpa-packages
> > +++ b/elpa-packages
> > @@ -487,6 +487,9 @@
> >     :auto-sync nil
> >     )
> >    ("pinentry"                :url "https://github.com/ueno/pinentry-el.git";)
> > + ("plz"                 :url "https://github.com/alphapapa/plz.el.git";
> > +  :doc "plz.info"
>
> How is plz.info generated?  From what I see the content is the same as
> README.org, right?  Unless something special is going on you should be
> able to let ELPA generate the file for you, instead of tracking the
> generated file in your repository.

It's generated the same way as the taxy.info file is for taxy, by the 
after-save-hook in the README.org file when I save it.

I'm not opposed to letting ELPA generate it for me, but I don't know if 
the output would be exactly the same.  And despite my best efforts, I 
haven't been able to use the ELPA Makefiles to fetch and build packages 
locally (various errors about missing ".tmp.setdiff" files, directories 
that shouldn't exist but do, directories that should exist but don't, 
invalid git object names, invalid branches, forbidden git repos, unknown 
git options...it's hard to know where to begin debugging it), so I can't 
check its output myself.