From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 2.4 Dropbox Edition Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:19:59 +0100 Message-ID: <8662snpofk.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <86k4hb5mr3.fsf@googlemail.com> <87pqr1v13q.fsf@tapoueh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297635629 8429 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2011 22:20:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:20:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 13 23:20:25 2011 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 1PokIq-0003w6-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:20:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PokIp-00008i-Te for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34429 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PokIi-000062-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PokIh-0001Ev-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PokIh-0001EX-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PokIf-0003s6-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:20:13 +0100 Original-Received: from e178191226.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.191.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:20:13 +0100 Original-Received: from gruenderteam.berlin by e178191226.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:20:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178191226.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bAK3vnf1JJ0KnH01JUDNWGUbqv8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:135978 Archived-At: Thanks, el-get is quite close to what I was looking for, and the motivations behind the development of el-get reflect well my experiences with configuring emacs for several machines. I think I should not have mentioned Dropbox. My question really was, if there will be an emacs release for all plattforms that is only the minimal core and makes it possible to do all the library management and configuration only once for all machines in some online repository, using tools like el-get. It would be very nice, if after purchasing a new computer (with a different platform) the only thing to do would be the installation of the platform dependent emacs core. All elisp libraries and the configuration files would be accessed through the online repository. If the necesary external software dependencies (e.g. w3m) would be downloaded automagically too by a tool like maven, many emacs users would save a lot of time and energy. Regards Thorsten