Re: Local ELPA

[Stephen Leake]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> - after ruthlessly deleting failing packages, and adding -Q, it
>>   succeeds, but does not produce packages/archive-contents, so the
>>   following fails:
>> (setq package-archives (list (cons "test" "/Projects/elpa/packages")))
>
> While there's some left-over ode that might support building such
> a local archive, I have no intention to support this mode of operation.
>
> Instead the recommended setup is a local *installation* of all GNU
> ELPA packages.

I don't understand what you mean by *installation*.

The reason I want a local ELPA archive is precisely to test that M-x
list-packages followed by install does the right thing with my package
under development.

If I want to install another package from ELPA in ~/.emacs.d, I'll use
the web access to ELPA.


You seem to be saying I should just create the .elc files in the git
workspace, and point to that in my .emacs, bypassing the 'package'
mechanisms; I don't see how that is useful.

-- 
-- Stephe