From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding ELPA to Emacs core Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 20:59:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgezu57f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87efks1642.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520708275 11146 195.159.176.226 (10 Mar 2018 18:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:57:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 19:57:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eujgl-0002n9-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 19:57:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51657 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eujin-0001u5-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:59:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eujih-0001sN-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eujie-0007mp-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eujie-0007mf-2f; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:59:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3902 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eujic-000206-Kf; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:59:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <87efks1642.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223591 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:13:01 +0000 > > > I've had a bit of a play at allowing ELPA packages to be directly > distributed with a core emacs installation. I tried this before where > files from ELPA were adding into the core as package.el packages. This > version does something simpler -- the raw files are just dumping into > the Emacs core, and then loaded like normal. > > It currently uses some heuristics to achieve this, but it supports > installing the package, any tests into EMACS/test/lisp and texinfo > files. I've added an extensibility point though -- packages could > control their own deployment where something complicated needs to > happen. > > Currently, it's make file driven (i.e. you edit the make file to add or > update a new package), but it would probably make sense to put the data > in a different file. Thanks. Is this supposed to be used while building a development version as well? Because if so, its use of rsync might be a portability issue. Can't we do the same using some Git magic instead?