Re: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Dmitry,

On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 08:53AM +03, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 08:35PM +02, John Darrington wrote:
>>> Sure.  But from a user's perspective I don't see the advantage in that.  I 
>>> mean what is the difference between typing "apt-get install pspp-mode" and 
>>> "M-x package-install 'pspp-mode" ?
>>
>> From the perspective of those of us working on packaging Emacs addons in 
>> Debian, significant advantages are
>>
>> 1) the way addons work doesn't change within a Debian stable release,
>>    just like Emacs itself doesn't change within a Debian stable release
>>
>> 2) addons get installed using Debian's mechanisms for a secure software
>>    supply chain, rather than relying on https alone.
>
> 3) they are automatically available to  #!/usr/bin/emacs --script  scripts; 
> and pollute stderr at every run:
>
>       $ ./hello.el
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)...
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake-data.el (source)...
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictem.el (source)...
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
>       Loading debian-ispell...
>       Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el 
> (source)...
>       Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el 
> (source)...
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50global.el (source)...
>       Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mu4e.el (source)...
>       Hello, Debian!

This only happens with old style addons.  Once we have finished
migrating all addons in the archive to our newer tooling you won't see
this.

-- 
Sean Whitton