From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:14:43 +0200 Message-ID: <837d094pr0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <87edv96q4j.fsf@posteo.net> <83tu455a5s.fsf@gnu.org> <87a65v2ytp.fsf@posteo.net> <834jw33rmx.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmer0xtz.fsf@posteo.net> <83wn8z2aze.fsf@gnu.org> <878rle1i0k.fsf@posteo.net> <87ilkelc10.fsf@posteo.net> <878rl6syg8.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdjqcu0.fsf@posteo.net> <87tu3iend4.fsf@posteo.net> <5CD628AF-439A-4635-A3C6-6B6223E1BD7D@posteo.net> <87a655c1na.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32518"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 05 12:15:04 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1orH8h-0008Fp-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2022 12:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orH8U-00018r-53; Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orH8S-00018J-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:14:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orH8S-0000xX-0k; Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:14:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=OrMMHCrW47RVurm+zi3TB73gbQ2WkBXD+kwZMG6Oyf4=; b=YNjCgF8QnsUa MCsDyxe7mmFeFGOFG9n39pkL2LsWgX+tWVDYqWKi6ccPbhcXMnYtQtoL3PjVILahuKfjU0FgeVdQB 975Zoz739CMUxvIeotVjBOJ+hCsjPkOs3xFQLp14tKDUPU1mAgze7VxIVeEuvRYsrKF1EPTNrWIrg 1QFkDu9MlLj6Ocf8MlwwzUTMCGDQhZrj0B7p2JdkHrfKrflyFtyqXegOnl7sPbhCdLN7FnGyAEEb6 n0vO/ye5TYw8qnsbNtjFJTcBdrG/uIW3V3mcTO5JcVPH9bv5h2w+2FNbzduOdDcXqThBGXymQn6kY auXI+TghwWpgE3S32LDQdw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orH8Q-0003BF-Io; Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:14:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a655c1na.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:15:53 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299184 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:15:53 +0000 > > > You want to do two things together: to check out source from the > > upstrean repo, and set up to use that version by default in Emacs. > > Now you've added a command to check it out and not do anything else. > > I want to offer the ability to do two things together. So you can now > either > > M-x package-vc-install foo > > and have everything taken care of, or > > M-x package-vc-checkout foo path/to/some/directory > M-x package-vc-link-directory path/to/some/directory > > to do the same using two separate steps. FWIW, I find the name package-vc-link-directory sub-optimal. There's nothing about linking in what it does. How about package-vc-install-from-checkout or package-vc-install-cloned instead?