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: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:12:52 -0600 Message-ID: <4C772D34.7050004@gmail.com> References: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> <87lj7t3qj7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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 1282878790 1331 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 03:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 05:13:08 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 1OopNM-00018s-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:13:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OopNL-0001V3-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49718 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OopNF-0001Tf-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OopND-0003qw-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:37324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OopND-0003qh-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so1273710gxk.0 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:12:58 -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=DUQDo10yxOLr+XcbOL1YNH7KOw81S5N8KdWlFOHEmaA=; b=exsOpio9RRhQJOUVJn2xQxTwTagMP97GMLdIosXK8Skcs2J4U+n2tQ4SQ5C4GXJEx+ npVRdha827kamO5hXH917hmD9+1g8kGp+OE6ptc7qs/RhA6b6lEpmRijWRrqGTSWM9TE qCmiFDrrPevbhVS1WbokKgmWpX9kYvLOrdf8I= 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=myxl/HIX8NMtAoje54uRVWHYOHBbNc5ZM8xNbq9yo+DATh/CVZ9lkhU/IX5GlT/ZrL ZK+PdpV6DtHyMQP3NMrkBHy+QU/aMW2/tJB0jxq0Fr9cTY9Iq2wzBp0SuEQlpcDYkrLO rj28rrmxhFTT9PjHs3vGjlVRYx/Om7PX3X+MI= Original-Received: by 10.100.198.9 with SMTP id v9mr167088anf.57.1282878778204; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (174-16-113-74.hlrn.qwest.net [174.16.113.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w1sm5268806ana.36.2010.08.26.20.12.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:12:57 -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: <87lj7t3qj7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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:129273 Archived-At: On 8/26/2010 5:27 PM, Juri Linkov wrote: > I guess we need something like `require', > e.g. (package-require FEATURE&optional FILENAME NOERROR). > > So you could put in your .emacs: > > (package-require 'company) > (package-require 'js2-mode) > (package-require 'rainbow-mode) > > and it will take care of installing and activating > your preferred packages on a new installation. Interesting. On each subsequent startup, after installing, it could then check if a new version is available and prompt for update. Of course that could be optional for people who don't want to be bothered with updating on startup. Christoph