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Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulati
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Phillip Lord |
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Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation |
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Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:59:26 +0000 |
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address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I've also got working code that takes an ELPA package and copies it into
>>> the core build. It's quite simple to do actually, the documentation
>>> needs improving and to plump in some configure options. It would raise
>>> the possibility of having a "Emacs minimal" core distribution (i.e. with
>>> no "elpa" packages). Interested?
>>
>> I think we need that, yes (e.g. we really should bundle Company with
>> Emacs while we want to keep it in elpa.git). But it's for Eli to decide
>> if and how he wants such a thing.
>
> I've pushed this to:
>
> feature/core-elpa-by-copy
>
> Currently, it's in as a feature
>
> ./configure --enable-elpa
> ./configure --enable-elpa=where-to-find-or-clone-elpa
>
> Main features:
>
> - Works with externals or non-external packages.
> - Versions are specified by git SHA, so a version build will be
> repeatable.
> - Both code and tests are supported
> - It's customizable by package authors on ELPA.
> - Doesn't use package.el (I think this is an anti-feature, but tried
> that before and no one liked it)
> - It requires network access only if ELPA is not available locally, or if
> the Makefile which describes versions is updated
> - Works with make -j in which case it does a git clone which the C is
> building
>
> None Features:
> - Currently, only works with a single git repo (i.e. ELPA) which is
> hard coded.
> - Doesn't support documentation or info
>
> To be done:
> - Give it prettier output
> - Clean ups.
Wondering whether anyone had time to give me feedback on this. It
provides a mechanism to have ELPA packages bundle with core Emacs.
Phil
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