From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: soliditsallgood@mailbox.org, felician.nemeth@gmail.com,
60418@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package
Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 21:45:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8h6hb2q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn1mlmwx.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Fri, 05 May 2023 17:15:42 +0000)
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: soliditsallgood@mailbox.org, 60418@debbugs.gnu.org,
> felician.nemeth@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 17:15:42 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> No, the commit of the latest release is interpreted the same way as
> >> elpa-admin.el does, namely the last revision that modified the "Version"
> >> header. If no such commit can be found, then a message is printed out
> >> and the installation continues under the assumption that the package is
> >> using a rolling-release model.
> >
> > I thought package-vc-install is used (or at least can be used) to
> > fetch the latest HEAD from the upstream repository? I even thought
> > this was its main raison d'être?
> >
> > If that's not true, does it mean we have no means for package users to
> > track the latest development code of a package?
>
> This is true, for package-vc-install, but the idea was not do this for
> the :vc keyword to use-package.
But I wrote the above as a comment to a patch to package-vc.el, not to
use-package. So why use-package is relevant here?
> My understanding is that the main
> interest here is to install packages that are not available via package
> archives. And as use-package is a popular means of bootstrapping a
> configuration, it seems the right approach to use the commit of the
> latest revision, instead of just any commit to avoid instability.
My understanding is that the :rev keyword allows to use any value that
is acceptable to package-vc-install. I understand that in most cases
users will want to install the latest, but once we decided to support
:rev, we must allow any valid value there. Right?
> By default, this function installs the last revision of the
> package available from its repository. If REV is a string, it
> describes the revision to install, as interpreted by the VC
> backend. The special value `:last-release' (interactively, the
> prefix argument), will use the commit of the latest release, if
> it exists. The latest revision is determined by the latest
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"last release", not "latest revision": you are explaining what the
previous sentence said.
> revision to modify the \"Version\" header of the main file.
>
> But I couldn't come up with an elegant way to avoid the passive voice in
> the last sentence.
Here's one way:
The last release is the latest revision which changed the
\"Version:\" header of the package's main Lisp file.
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2022-12-29 18:43 bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-04-16 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-01 19:43 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 20:01 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-02 13:18 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 13:59 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-02 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-04 8:13 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-05-05 5:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
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2023-05-05 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2023-05-06 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 7:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-06 19:39 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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