From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:43:14 -0600 Message-ID: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281145406 5137 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2010 01:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 01:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 07 03:43:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhYRZ-0005qe-CX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhYRY-0001Lv-MV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53529 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhYRT-0001Li-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhYRT-0001DD-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:43207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhYRS-0001D5-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: by ywg8 with SMTP id 8so4074172ywg.0 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:43:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PtFA+doiLajQZqkvlJxs7rj0m50nT7TUefdhs3JMDDk=; b=lLVgLnAPJocNz3aiLtsgs31KpXjUTLUZEgt8HL0vfxSv+lI5q4Vxy+MyvNNaqLYcBA +db4S+9WubBBcU5FxADJN+w5CFRfmKkNZIFoqjwEzPcSogCDMWmIwHTbtdHtKNCMAMCA 51HbwDwrtcWjsAliBMelJsMQ0TtbOfnmrtCDo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qiqhwmc2bnuvWc8blah0vnzapk2SAEfys90+JgTFi81vG8tQbA7ZbcQ8i0xjUhv5ov GP8SXueVWX/VJdZaaJZArHDNCQchpWrw7Ims5Cj8Znb5bywCQ7/EpF5eX6oskVRLX42c aEcTTR+cUXSmy0SeDkqSxhdXIaafIaUe0LBWc= Original-Received: by 10.100.209.8 with SMTP id h8mr14480783ang.251.1281145397910; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (97-122-117-237.hlrn.qwest.net [97.122.117.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i25sm3180872anh.17.2010.08.06.18.43.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128414 Archived-At: On 8/6/2010 4:42 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > I'd appreciate comments on this patch. > > I finally found a little time to write some documentation for > package.el. Hi Tom, I just tried package.el for the first time and I like it a lot! This could save me a lot of time googling around trying to find the latest versions. I have a couple of thoughts: I am wondering, is there a way to give package.el a list of packages to go download from ELPA and install? I would also want it to use this list to check for new versions of all packages in the list. Either on startup or on command (M-x package-upgrade). Also, on a new installation of Emacs I would just tell it "Go get the packages in the list" and it would recreate my package configuration on that machine. All I need in version control is the list as part of my init.el, instead of putting the entire elpa/ directory under version control and deploying it to the new machine. Great work! Christoph