Fwd: Package.el merged

[Phil Hagelberg]

Oops; forgot to reply-all.


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From: Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Package.el merged
To: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have now added package.el, Tom Tromey's package system, to the trunk.
> It's been discussed on this list previously; to summarize, it provides a
> convenient way to download and install Emacs Lisp packages and have them
> loaded automatically at startup.
>
> One change, relative to package.el 0.9, is that package-archive-base now
> points to elpa.gnu.org, a server that the FSF has graciously provided
> for our use.  This is currently mostly empty, except for a couple of
> test packages.  Let's concentrate on polishing the packaging system
> before worrying about populating it.

Thanks for getting this included; I'm excited about moving it forward.

I think I may have miscommunicated at some point; it looks like the
version in Emacs right now is based on the one at tromey.com rather
than my version from git that has had several bugfixes applied to it.
I can try to replay the bugfixes in my branch on top of the version in
Emacs, but it will probably be easier to apply your changes on top of
mine. Am I correct in assuming that most of the changes were around
adding the package-hold-alist variable?

I will try to perform the merge and submit a patch that brings it up to date.

-Phil