From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Qiantan Hong <qthong@stanford.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 02:30:02 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33daec75f840823e825a814beb92e739@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4da24dd1595da27f2557ba15bf4a636@webmail.orcon.net.nz>
On 2021-11-28 01:16, Phil Sainty wrote:
> I suppose (package-desc-version (package-load-descriptor DIR)) can be
> used for ELPA packages installed in the standard way, so maybe there's
> scope for using that; but I suspect that'd be too brittle an approach,
> as there are many non-standard ways of loading things.
I phrased that final bit very confusingly.
I just meant that a file which is intended to be installed as an
ELPA package might actually be loaded directly from some non-ELPA
source, or even evaluated via `eval-buffer', and so an approach
which depended on a *-pkg.el being present in the same directory
could fail in those situations, causing inconsistent behaviour.
-Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-27 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 9:31 PACKAGE-FEATURES, and hot update of Emacs packages Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 10:18 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 10:20 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-27 12:16 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-27 13:30 ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-11-27 20:36 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-28 7:22 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-28 7:51 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-11-28 1:04 ` Tim Cross
2021-11-28 4:23 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-28 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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