* bug#16255: C-h p C-s games RET (package-show-package-list?) misses most of the games
@ 2013-12-25 20:54 Ivan Shmakov
2013-12-26 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Ivan Shmakov @ 2013-12-25 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 16255
Package: emacs
Severity: minor
As of 84b50168 [1], C-h p C-s games RET lists only a few games
of those coming with Emacs:
Package Version Status ▼ Archive Description
dunnet 2.1 built-in text adventure for Emacs
gamegrid 1.2 built-in library for implementing grid-based games on Emacs
tetris 2.1 built-in implementation of Tetris for Emacs
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=84b50168
As it seems, package-show-package-list is given all the games
found, yet it fails to render them in the resulting *Packages*
buffer, perhaps because of them missing the Version: metadata.
As per M-x trace-function-background:
1 -> (package-show-package-list (zone tetris studly spook solitaire snake pong mpuz morse meese life landmark hanoi gomoku gametree gamegrid fortune dunnet doctor dissociate decipher cookie1 bubbles blackbox animate 5x5))
1 <- package-show-package-list: #<buffer *Packages*>
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* bug#16255: C-h p C-s games RET (package-show-package-list?) misses most of the games
2013-12-25 20:54 bug#16255: C-h p C-s games RET (package-show-package-list?) misses most of the games Ivan Shmakov
@ 2013-12-26 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-26 10:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-12-26 2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ivan Shmakov; +Cc: 16255
As it seems, package-show-package-list is given all the games
found, yet it fails to render them in the resulting *Packages*
buffer, perhaps because of them missing the Version: metadata.
As per M-x trace-function-background:
package.el was designed to handle installation of packages that are
separate from Emacs. It can also deal with packages that are bundled
with Emacs, but only if those announce themselves as such.
Stefan
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2013-12-26 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2013-12-26 10:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-01-03 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Shmakov @ 2013-12-26 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 16255
>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> As it seems, package-show-package-list is given all the games found,
>> yet it fails to render them in the resulting *Packages* buffer,
>> perhaps because of them missing the Version: metadata.
>> As per M-x trace-function-background:
> package.el was designed to handle installation of packages that are
> separate from Emacs. It can also deal with packages that are bundled
> with Emacs, but only if those announce themselves as such.
Well, just to be clear, C-h p C-s games RET RET results in the
following list on Emacs 24.3.1.
5x5 built-in simple little puzzle game
animate built-in make text dance
blackbox built-in blackbox game in Emacs Lisp
bubbles built-in Puzzle game for Emacs
cookie1 built-in retrieve random phrases from fortune cookie files
decipher built-in cryptanalyze monoalphabetic substitution ciphers
dissociate built-in scramble text amusingly for Emacs
doctor built-in psychological help for frustrated users
dunnet 2.1 built-in text adventure for Emacs
fortune built-in use fortune to create signatures
gamegrid 1.2 built-in library for implementing grid-based games on Emacs
gametree built-in manage game analysis trees in Emacs
gomoku built-in Gomoku game between you and Emacs
hanoi built-in towers of hanoi in Emacs
landmark built-in neural-network robot that learns landmarks
life built-in John Horton Conway's `Life' game for GNU Emacs
meese built-in protect the impressionable young minds of America
morse built-in convert text to morse code and back
mpuz built-in multiplication puzzle for GNU Emacs
pong built-in classical implementation of pong
snake built-in implementation of Snake for Emacs
solitaire built-in game of solitaire in Emacs Lisp
spook built-in spook phrase utility for overloading the NSA line eater
studly built-in StudlyCaps (tm)(r)(c)(xxx)
tetris 2.1 built-in implementation of Tetris for Emacs
yow built-in quote random zippyisms
zone built-in idle display hacks
To me, the failure of the recent development version to show the
above seems like a regression, regardless of the particulars.
If the change made to package.el was indeed intended, then my
guess is that it should’ve been complemented with the changes to
all of the packages above to make them fit the newly imposed
criteria for inclusion.
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* bug#16255: C-h p C-s games RET (package-show-package-list?) misses most of the games
2013-12-26 10:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
@ 2014-01-03 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-21 19:31 ` Ivan Shmakov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-01-03 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ivan Shmakov; +Cc: 16255
> To me, the failure of the recent development version to show the
> above seems like a regression, regardless of the particulars.
Oh, right, sorry. I didn't realize that finder already used package.el
in 24.3 to display the packages. Hmm...
> If the change made to package.el was indeed intended, then my
> guess is that it should’ve been complemented with the changes to
> all of the packages above to make them fit the newly imposed
> criteria for inclusion.
The change was more along the lines that there's no point showing those
packages in package.el because there's nothing the user can do with them
in terms of install/update/uninstall (by virtue of being built-in and
having no version number).
But indeed, I see now that package.el was also used by finder as a kind
of browser to get at the package's Commentary, in which case those
unversioned packages can still be useful.
Hmm....
Stefan
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2014-01-03 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2014-11-21 19:31 ` Ivan Shmakov
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Shmakov @ 2014-11-21 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 16255-done
Version: 24.4
>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> To me, the failure of the recent development version to show the
>> above seems like a regression, regardless of the particulars.
> Oh, right, sorry. I didn't realize that finder already used
> package.el in 24.3 to display the packages. Hmm...
I no longer observe the issue (as of 2014-11-18 build,
cb4f666ade76.) Per my reading of the Git log, it was fixed
(as Bug#16762) in the emacs-24 branch back this March:
commit 3e2377ce2f4eeb141ffbd000723c55813f78b08f
Author: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 25 00:38:06 2014 +0200
Commit: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 25 00:38:06 2014 +0200
Fix bug#16762
* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package--add-to-archive-contents):
Include already installed and built-in packages in
`package-archive-contents'.
(package-install): Don't include already installed packages in the
options on interactive invocation.
[…]
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