Adding leuven-theme to GNU ELPA

[skangas]

leuven-theme.el is shipped with Emacs, but it would be nice if users could get upgrades through GNU ELPA. It should be easy to add it, if we agree that it's a good idea.

Fabrice, what do you think?

[fniessen]

Dear @skangas , are you explicitly making a difference between MELPA and ELPA? Because it's already on MELPA... and via Git... so, in fact, you do have 3 versions - the last 2 ones with the same lifecycle, though...

[skangas]

Yes, they are different archives. GNU ELPA is configured in Emacs by default, whereas MELPA is not.

(Note that ELPA properly refers only to the protocol that is used by both GNU ELPA and MELPA.)

[fniessen]

As there are already 2 places (MELPA and Git) to get a recent copy, I don't intend, by lack of time, to invest time for looking at how to make it available on ELPA.
Would you have time, and wish that feature, that'd be welcomed though.

[skangas]

On current master, we have this MELPA-inspired version in leuven.el:

;; Version: 20200513.1928

On GNU ELPA, we do not follow the versioning scheme; all packages have versions like, e.g. "0.1". Do you think we could change the versioning scheme of leuven.el to make it fit in better with the rest of the packages (and indeed with Emacs itself)?

If the answer is yes, I'm happy to add it to GNU ELPA.

PS. BTW, maybe it's worth updating the version of leuven.el that is on the emacs-28 branch in any case?

[fniessen]

Dear @skangas ,

Yes, we could change the naming conventions for the versions - no worry - to be put in GNU ELPA.
Yes, also, the current version of leuven.el could be made part of emacs-28.

Are you planning to do (both of) this?

[skangas]

Hi @fniessen,

Sure, I can add a pull request with the new version number. Do you have any preferences for where to start, or does 1.0 sound good to you?