Re: Eglot and Tramp

[Michael Albinus]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

Hi João,

>> No annoyance. But a user of Emacs 26.3 has Tramp 2.3.5 built-in. Because
>> of Eglot, Tramp 2.4.4 would be installed for her from GNU ELPA, w/o
>> having asked for.
>
> Well, this user did ask for Eglot.  He will also get an updated
> xref.el, project.el eldoc.el, flymake.el as already happens.  I'm
> afraid this is just how inter-package dependencies work.

The point is that this Tramp upgrade is not mandatory. Only if a user
wants to apply Eglot remotely. I'm the last one who would say a Tramp
upgrade is bad :-) But a Tramp upgrade w/o a reason?

> As long as Tramp 2.4.4 is (mostly) backward compatible to 2.3.5's uses...
> there should be no (little) problem.

It's backward compatible.

> João

Best regards, Michael.