GNU bug report logs - #77300
[Feature Request] Move color.el library to ELPA

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 05:20:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
To: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Subject: bug#77300: [Feature Request] Move color.el library to ELPA
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:51:54 +0100

Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> =color.el= is a very useful library for packages that requires using
> color modifications or computation such as highlighting or more.
>
> And now with recent changes in emacs-30 (such as news =color-oklab*=
> functions (and more in future versions)), it would be worth having them
> in ELPA.

We port back `color-*' functions as part of Compat, which is available
on ELPA. So you can depend on Compat instead in your package. This means
that not every small Emacs libraries like color.el has to be made
available on ELPA as well.

Daniel
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