From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yoni Rabkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44270: 24.5; EMMS failures while installing Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:38:19 -0500 Message-ID: <87r1p8v884.fsf@rabkins.net> References: <21610.1603849839@hop.toad.com> <87ft5ytwm6.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33378"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 44270@debbugs.gnu.org, John Gilmore , Yoni Rabkin To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 03:39:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVB7-0008ZC-Nu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 03:39:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40592 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVB6-0005Gi-ME for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:39:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVB0-0005GN-HW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVB0-0000yj-8E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVB0-0007P3-3F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:39:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Yoni Rabkin Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 02:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44270 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 44270-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44270.160454390728414 (code B ref 44270); Thu, 05 Nov 2020 02:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44270) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Nov 2020 02:38:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51243 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVAR-0007OE-3h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from smtprelay0164.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.164]:37448 helo=smtprelay.hostedemail.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kaVAM-0007O3-3B for 44270@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813B718224D61; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 02:38:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 796F6E69407261626B696E732E6E6574 X-HE-Tag: basin52_1114107272c6 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2474 Original-Received: from greenriver.rabkins.net (c-73-238-99-162.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [73.238.99.162]) (Authenticated sender: yoni@rabkins.net) by omf17.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 02:38:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Ethics: Use GNU In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 4 Nov 2020 07:49:08 -0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:192697 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> John Gilmore writes: >> >>> M-x list-packages >>> picked emms, hit Install. >>> I've included the *Compile-Log* buffer contents, which include one >>> error and several warnings. >>> Compiling file /gnu/home/.emacs.d/elpa/emms-6.0/emms-browser.el at Tue Oct 27 18:43:24 2020 >>> emms-browser.el:292:1:Error: Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, seq >> >> It seems like EMMS requires seq, but that it's not installed in your >> Emacs? My guess is that your Emacs (24.5) is too old to use EMMS. >> >> But EMMS should specify that, I guess? > > Indeed, I think EMMS should add a dependency on seq: > > ;; Package-Requires: ((cl-lib "0.5") (seq "2.22")) > > Perhaps it should add a dependency also on Emacs, but I don't know which > version it would need. > > Yoni, could you please take a look at this? This might warrant > releasing a new version of the package on GNU ELPA. > The code which requires seq (in emms-browser.el) was added in 2017 (contemporaneous with Emacs 25.2), but of course Emacs 24.5 dates back from 2015. I'll see if it possible to re-write that code without seq and therefore to regain that backward compatibility. If so, it will take a good while before it is done. Should I add a dependency on a particular version of Emacs in the meantime? -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"