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: decision on moving core packages to ELPA; also move to obsolete? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:19:36 +0200 Message-ID: <838s9x8pwn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a6ugnopl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83im94b17m.fsf@gnu.org> <834kknatxs.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1nqaph6.fsf@gnu.org> <83eejqak4s.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtyd8wep.fsf@gnu.org> <83ft458s3v.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30981"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, daniele@grinta.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 21:21:02 2020 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 1kpdIE-0007wf-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:21:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42868 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpdID-0006Bn-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpdGw-0005OT-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpdGu-0008W1-Uq; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1056 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kpdGu-0008Ql-4b; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:19:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:06:59 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261057 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: daniele@grinta.net, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:06:59 -0500 > > > Are you talking about something that already works, or about something > > that _could_ work, after some changes? If the former, then where's > > the code to support it? > > > > My question was about the last part: it seemed to describe how things > > _should_ work, but I'm not sure we already have that implemented. Do > > we? > > What I'm describing is the use of a facility that was implemented for > another use-case scenario. There is no code to write to use that > facility: just add the relevant directory to `package-directory-list` > and you're done. So yes, it's implemented and it works. But that addition of a directory (or maybe more than one) to package-directory-list -- that bit still needs to be done, for this to really work, right?