bug#27170: 26.0.50; Suggestion: Optionally send package build output to log file not *Messages*

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > Sure, writing the output to a file would be fine, but I don't think
>   > Emacs needs a logging framework for that.  If we can redirect messages
>   > to a buffer, then package.el can do whatever it wants with the messages,
>   > including writing them to a file if so desired.
>
> I agree.  Let's not make this more complex than the minimum.

This has now been added to Emacs 29 -- packages can bind
`messages-buffer-name' to a different buffer name to redirect the
output.

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