This is an EmacsLisp package to reimplement the marmalade-repo with Elnode. Nathan Weizenbaum wrote the original marmalade-repo with node.js and mongodb.
This reimplementation uses an Elnode application dealing with a filesystem of all packages. It's basically a file server app.
This packages includes conversion tools from the mongodb to the filesystem.
These are the things marmalade should do:
- construct the package archive file from the package directory structure
- the package archive is an index of all the packages in the repository.
- allow the archive to be updated with uploads
- provide the ELPA /package/ HTTP API for downloading packages
- provide HTML front end to the /package/ HTTP API
- provide EmacsLisp front end to the /package/ HTTP API
- this will likely be a separate project
Current expected ETA for live elmarmalade: end of May.
node.js marmalade has been broken for some time with the web upload. This is caused by major outdatedness in the node.js that marmalade was built on. It is very crufty and tedious to update.
So Nic Ferrier is banking on getting this live. Sadly he has a demanding job at the moment so doesn't get the time to hack on this that he'd like.
It would be nice if marmalade provided better package discovery.
It would be nice if marmalade stored licences in a clear way and allowed you to use only safe licences if you wish.