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riscy / melpazoid

A bundle of CI scripts for testing Emacs packages, primarily submissions to MELPA.
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Check for existing packages by the same name #6

Closed tarsius closed 4 years ago

tarsius commented 4 years ago

Melpa isn't a complete archive of Emacs packages. I think you should also check the Emacsmirror (including Emacsattic). You could use the epkg package for that purpose or you could just get the necessary information from the Emacsmirror's data repository directly.

As an example, this would have allowed you to notice when accepting https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/6725 that https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/srfi.el also exists. (You won't be able to see that now anymore, because I am updating the Emacsmirror to mirror that new implementation. That often is the right thing to do but its still a good idea to inspect the older implementation and to make the author of the new one aware of it in case they want to lift some ideas or something.)

riscy commented 4 years ago

This is a great idea and should be fairly easy to implement. It will surely prevent oversights like with srfi. :)

tarsius commented 4 years ago

You're not waiting for me or anything like that?

riscy commented 4 years ago

Nope, this is all set. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. :)