Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: project-store

Lin Jian <[email protected]> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> It ought to be safe to rename the package, from what I have checked.  If
>> you want to we can proceed.
>
> Let's rename it.
>
>> I can rename the package right away, and
>> then as soon as you rename the file locally /and/ release a new version
>> of the package, the new tarballs should appear on elpa.nongnu.org.  Does
>> that sound good? 
>
> I also want to rename the GitHub repo.
>
> I think the renaming process is:
>
> 1. (project-store :url OLD-URL) -> (project-nix-store :url OLD-URL)
> 2. I rename the GitHub repo.
> 3. (project-nix-store :url OLD-URL) -> (project-nix-store :url NEW-URL)
> 4. I modify contents of the git repo, such as renaming files
> 5. I cut a new release.
>
> I am not quite sure about the first 3 steps.  Maybe step 3 is not needed
> if we assume GitHub will do the redirect reliably?  Maybe step 1 and 3
> can be done in one step after step 2?

You can do 2, 3 and 5 at once and we just have to update the package
specification concurrently, there is no need for an explicit
synchronization point.