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Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:28:49 -0500 |
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:39 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> OK. So who's going to do the work? And can you summarize what you're
>>>> asking for after this discussion?
SM> What I wrote above is the summary, AFAIK.
>> OK, I'll try to summarize because your requirements are not clear to
>> me. Tell me if I understand what you're looking for.
SM> You describe a possible solution rather than a requirement ;-)
Yes, I tend to do that :)
>> 2) check out or update the ELPA branch to $elpa
SM> OK.
>> 3) cd $elpa; make local-install EMACS=$trunk/src/emacs (this runs the
>> trunk-built Emacs to `package-install' each ELPA package in
>> $elpa/packages and then adds "$elpa/packages" to
>> `package-directory-list' or maybe gives you a snippet to put in your
>> .emacs).
SM> The name "install" is confusing here: I don't want the .el files to
SM> be copied. I just want to compile them, extract their autoloads into
SM> a file somewhere, and things like that.
I'm pretty sure this will require a `package-install-in-place' function,
after looking at the source. Ugh.
Would "make inplace" be a better name?
>> The trunk-built Emacs may need to have been installed system-wide.
SM> No, that's undesirable.
...so are we then installing in the locally-compiled Emacs (modifying
files under $trunk) or for the user (modifying init/custom files)?
(All this would be much easier if the elpa branch was a subdirectory
under trunk!)
Ted
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, (continued)
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/25
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/25
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/25
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/28
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/28
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/29
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/29
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/30