docker-credential-helpers VS melpa

Docker supports a credential-helper module[0], which supports 4 different backends for fetching the docker registry credentials: osxkeychain, pass, wincred, and secretservice.

pass lets you use GPG-smartcards, and many of those (such as Yubikeys) will let you enforce touch-policies for signing/encruption.

As a combination of both these however, I must touch my Yubikey every time I pull a new docker image.

Another cool use-case is that I use the terraform-pass-provider to save secrets for my personal terraform project.

[0]: https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers

# Finds the latest version $ wincred_version=$(curl -fsSL -o /dev/null -w "%{url_effective}" https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases/latest) # Downloads and extracts the .exe $ sudo curl -fL \ "https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases/download/${wincred_version}/docker-credential-wincred-${wincred_version}-$(dpkg --print-architecture).zip" | zcat | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-wincred.exe >/dev/null # Assigns execution permission to it $ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-wincred.exe

Watch the new pull requests to melpa: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pulls

(require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize) (package-install 'use-package) (use-package exec-path-from-shell :ensure t :config (exec-path-from-shell-initialize)))

MELPA is definitely the biggest package archive, probably mostly on account of the lower barrier to entry compared to GNU ELPA (maybe the difference would have been less pronounced if NonGNU ELPA had been there from the beginning, but one can only speculate). MELPA has its own requirements for packages, but indeed copyright assignment to the FSF is not one of them.

I would suggest to start at reading the manual first. Then I would recommend reading the Melpa guidance, even if you do not plan to contribute your package to Melpa, since it contains very useful info about linting, writing your code etc.

The mxtoolbox link checks for SMTP blacklisting.. People won't be able to send mail from host with the IP address 178.128.185.1(which is the melpa.org webserver, not their mailserver, so everything's fine there).

Xah asked for his packages to be removed from MELPA a while back: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/7755

Observe that package.el compile files when they are installed, and they are not compiled in any particular order (actually whatever directory-files returns, which is what OS returns). So if you have multiple files that depend on each other, it is something to think of. There are also some guidelines on how to structure your project on Melpa.