melpa/melpa
Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5446
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 9
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2965 stars · 2804 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
MELPA is the largest community package archive for Emacs, built automatically from upstream source repositories using recipe files. This repository contains the package recipes and the build machinery that compiles and publishes packages to melpa.org.
Use cases
- install emacs packages from melpa
- add a new emacs package to melpa
- write a melpa recipe for my elisp package
- build emacs lisp packages automatically from git
- find emacs packages to install
- set up package.el to use melpa archive
When to choose
- you maintain an Emacs Lisp package and want it distributed via MELPA
- you want to understand or mirror how MELPA builds packages
- you need to submit or fix a package recipe
When to avoid
- you just want to install packages - use the melpa.org archive directly in Emacs, not this repo
- you need a package manager for non-Emacs ecosystems
Facets
service · maturity active
package-manager build-tool developer-tools developer-tools text-editors windows cli emacs-lisp package-archive melpa package-recipes elisp automation emacs linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/melpa/melpa · fetched 2026-08-28 · f4405b1fe31a
- homepage: https://melpa.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 357972b3fc2c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| melpa/melpa | main | 77 |
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