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Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
From: |
N. Raghavendra |
Subject: |
Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 11:24:52 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
At 2017-11-03T17:44:13-07:00, Deric Bytes wrote:
> I had recently looked at el-get and noticed that the core lisp code
> seemed unchanged for 2 years.
That is perhaps because it is a stable package, which works as expected,
and does not need any fundamental change. Most of the additions to
El-Get now are either new recipes for packages, or modifications of
existing recipes.
Since the last few years, I have been using El-Get to manage the
installation of packages, and `use-package' to manage their
configuration. With forms like
(el-get-bundle emacs-w3m
:type github
:pkgname "emacsmirror/w3m"
:build `(("autoconf")
("./configure" ,(concat "--with-emacs=" el-get-emacs))
("make"))
:info "doc")
(el-get-bundle emms :url "foo@bar.net:emms.git")
(el-get-bundle mediawiki
:type github
:pkgname "hexmode/mediawiki-el")
(el-get-bundle pdf-tools :checkout "2eaffae69a0b9f51b2740b0d6dd795088529e683")
in my init file, I can specify the sources of packages, the commands for
building them, their versions, etc. This system has been working well,
and I have not needed to use another package manager. In particular, I
don't use either the built in package system, or MELPA.
You may also want to look at
https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-el-get
Regards,
Raghu.
--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/