Re: List of packages, maintainers and dev sites?

Jari> Hi, Jari> I'm looking for single point of entry to the Jari> - list of packages that can be installed to 21.x. Jari> Alternatively to a list of XEmacs 20.4 features (that Jari> is, eg. 'w3 for bunch of W3 files) - Contact address to Jari> the maintainer of the feature - Development site URI Jari> from where to get latest version or beta for the Jari> feature. Hello Jari, in 21.0 there is `package-get-base' variable describing the list of installed packages. The latest version of all available packages can be found at /ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp This file contains additional information (e.g. maintainer). It has all the information you asked for. Regards, Adrian `package-get-base' (buffer: *Hyper Apropos*, mode: Hyper-Apropos) Variable: value: see below List of packages that are installed at this site. For each element in the alist, car is the package name and the cdr is a plist containing information about the package. Typical fields kept in the plist are: version - version of this package provides - list of symbols provided requires - list of symbols that are required. These in turn are provided by other packages. filename - name of the file. size - size of the file (aka the bundled package) md5sum - computed md5 checksum description - What this package is for. type - Whether this is a 'binary (default) or 'single file package More fields may be added as needed. An example: '( (name (version "<version 2>" file "filename" description "what this package is about." provides (<list>) requires (<list>) size <integer-bytes> md5sum "<checksum" type single ) (version "<version 1>" file "filename" description "what this package is about." provides (<list>) requires (<list>) size <integer-bytes> md5sum "<checksum" type single ) ... )) For version information, it is assumed things are listed in most recent to least recent -- in other words, the version names don't have to be lexically ordered. It is debatable if it makes sense to have more than one version of a package available. Jari> I suppose that can be somehow created from current Jari> packaging system, but I only have access to 20.3. I Jari> could grep the provide commands from the source tree, Jari> but is this accurate? Jari> Could you put this list available somewhere public and Jari> update as Jari> needed? Jari> jari -- Adrian Aichner European Design Center Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com