Bug#837921: ITP: emacs-deferred -- simple asynchronous functions and higher level library for concurrent tasks

[Lev Lamberov <dogsleg@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lev Lamberov <dogsleg@debian.org>

* Package name    : emacs-deferred
  Version         : 0.4.0
  Upstream Author : Masashi Sakurai <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net>
* URL             : https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-deferred
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp
  Description     : simple asynchronous functions and higher level library for concurrent tasks

Contains two packages, deferred.el and concurrent.el

deferred.el:
It is a simple library for asynchronous tasks. The API is almost the same as
JSDeferred (by cho45) and  Mochikit.Async (by Bob Ippolito) in JavaScript.

concurrent.el:
It is a higher level library for concurrent tasks  based on deferred.el. This
library has following features:

 - Generator
 - Green thread
 - Semaphore
 - Dataflow
 - Signal/Channel