From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
Cc: Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de>,
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
PSPP Development Mailing List <pspp-dev@gnu.org>,
mail@vasilij.de
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 21:51:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eepoexmd.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lfjx2ln2.dag@gnui.org>
Hello,
On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 09:38AM +03, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 08:53AM +03, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>>> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>>>> On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 08:35PM +02, John Darrington wrote:
>>>>> Sure. But from a user's perspective I don't see the advantage in that. I mean what is the difference between typing "apt-get install pspp-mode" and "M-x package-install 'pspp-mode" ?
>>>>
>>>> From the perspective of those of us working on packaging Emacs addons in Debian, significant advantages are
>>>>
>>>> 1) the way addons work doesn't change within a Debian stable release, just like Emacs itself doesn't change within a Debian stable release
>>>>
>>>> 2) addons get installed using Debian's mechanisms for a secure software supply chain, rather than relying on https alone.
>>>
>>> 3) they are automatically available to #!/usr/bin/emacs --script scripts; and pollute stderr at every run:
>
>> This only happens with old style addons. Once we have finished migrating all addons in the archive to our newer tooling you won't see this.
>
> The first part of the advantage will be still valid, though, right? That is, they are prepended to ‘load-path’ even with -q / --batch / --script, while package.el-managed packages do not.
Actually, they are added to package-directory-alist and then
package-initialize adds them to the load-path.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-07 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <jwvr1twzlte.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2020-06-30 21:55 ` Fwd: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting Friedrich Beckmann
2020-07-04 9:20 ` John Darrington
2020-07-04 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-04 15:15 ` John Darrington
2020-07-04 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-05 6:06 ` John Darrington
2020-07-05 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-05 17:17 ` Ben Pfaff
2020-07-05 17:16 ` Ben Pfaff
2020-07-05 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-05 22:17 ` Ben Pfaff
2020-07-05 9:44 ` Friedrich Beckmann
2020-07-05 11:18 ` John Darrington
2020-07-05 16:51 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-05 17:14 ` Friedrich Beckmann
2020-07-05 18:35 ` John Darrington
2020-07-05 18:50 ` tomas
2020-07-05 20:20 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06 5:53 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-06 6:01 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06 6:38 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-07 4:51 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2020-06-20 19:53 Friedrich Beckmann
2020-06-30 13:07 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
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