On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 01:01:01PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Package: emacs-goodies-el > > Version: 40.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > We've just about (98%) finished transitioning emacs-goodies-el to a > > set of elpafied packages. > > Congratulations! Thank you :-) > > I've had trouble finding an upstream source > > for projects.el and ff-paths.el and David indicated that you might be > > the upstream maintainer of these. We're looking for something like a > > release tarball or a project in VCS. > > I wrote ff-paths.el a long time ago and "adopted" projects.el when it's > author died. There is no release tar ball as I was just inserting it in > emacs-goodies-el myself. Thank you for adopting that projects.el at that time :-) While they're not technical issues, a lot of the effort I'm putting into emacs-goodies-el is to try to recuperate all of the man-hours that have been put into this package. It's a tricky dance to decide whether to maximally honour someone's work or to migrate to something newer and more popular... > It's probable safe to kill off projects.el and I can look at ff-paths.el > to see if it still works well. Here are the alternatives to continuing maintenance of projects.el that I'm aware of: The simple one: https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/project-el The comprehensive one (already in Debian): https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile If we drop projects.el I'd like to mark it as "transitioned" and recommend one of these (probably projectile). Have you used it, would you recommend it as a replacement, and would you like your name to appear next to the recommendation in goodies' README.Debian? As for ff-paths.el, I've found an upstream recommendation to transition to the GNU Emacs built-in ffap.el: https://github.com/emacsmirror/ff-paths/blob/master/ff-paths.el#L66 Other than that there are packages such as find-file-in-project, counsel-ag (uses silversearcher-ag), and many others. Kind regards, Nicholas
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