Re: Best practice for tracking current release?

[Michael Albinus]

"Ben Hyde" <address@hidden> writes:

> My init file has this form in it to set up el-get
>
> (cond
>  ((file-exists-p (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/el-get"))
>   (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name
> "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get"))
>   (require 'el-get))
>  (t
>   (url-retrieve
>    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el";
>    (lambda (s)
>      (goto-char (point-max))
>      (eval-print-last-sexp)))))
>
> which doesn’t look right to me … but I took the quick choice.
>
> There is a comment in that file about how the install from melpa
> didn’t work for me because
> the recipe I wanted (the one for pymacs) wasn’t included.
>
> For me I didn’t install el-get until I encountered something essoteric
> that I was struggling with installing,
> that might have been pymacs … which I still haven’t got working to my
> satisfaction.

I was considering to add a note to the Tramp manual, how to use el-get
for easy installation. But this doesn't look more easy than what is
described already.

>  - ben

Best regards, Michael.