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Re: Integrating package.el
From: |
Phil Hagelberg |
Subject: |
Re: Integrating package.el |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:02:38 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'm going to continue my work on package.el whether or not it is
>> accepted into Emacs, but it would be a shame to make users go through
>> extra installation steps to use it.
>
> Having myself written a package manager (install.el), I'm clearly fully
> in favor of integrating something like package.el.
> I don't think there's necessarily much work to be done to integrate it.
>
> E.g. It is not necessary to set up a VCS area to keep the package
> sources (and other such things) before integrating package.el.
True, this is not of the highest importance since the steps it takes can
still be done manually without too much tedium.
> Basically, all I want is for it to be able to distinguish between
> "packages available locally, either installed by the user or the
> sysadmin", and "packages that will be autoloaded in a given session", so
> as to be able to install different versions of the same package at the
> same time.
OK, I will prioritize this once I finish adding support for multiple
archive sources. I think we'll need this in order to support separating
out fully-supported packages vs unsupported packages for which we simply
have copyright assignment as Ted has suggested.
thanks,
Phil
- Re: Integrating package.el, (continued)
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/09
- Re: Integrating package.el, Richard Stallman, 2010/01/09
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/09
- Re: Integrating package.el, Richard Stallman, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Chong Yidong, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, joakim, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el,
Phil Hagelberg <=
- Re: Integrating package.el, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/13
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/19
- Re: Integrating package.el, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/01/19
- Re: Integrating package.el, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/01/10
- Re: Integrating package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/01/12
- Re: Integrating package.el, Phil Hagelberg, 2010/01/12
- Re: Integrating package.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/01/05
- Re: Integrating package.el, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/05
- Installation, activation and setup of packages (e.g. Gnus) (was: Integrating package.el), Ted Zlatanov, 2010/01/05