From: Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@googlemail.com>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:10:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eiq316g0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19124.17591.858644.388902@rgr.rgrjr.com> (Bob Rogers's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:40:55 -0400")
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Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org> writes:
> From: Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:50:04 +0100
>
> . . .
>
> One thing to bear in mind is that shared libraries on unix are probably
> a simpler problem than emacs libraries: I can install multiple versions
> of libfoo and the dynamic linker will select the correct one for an
> application. Trying to install multiple versions of an emacs package
> would result in a godawful mess, because it's not just a list of
> functions that can be called.
>
> I don't know how one could solve that, so I suspect that the only
> solution is to only allow one version of a package at once . . .
>
> Rupert
>
> This does not seem so hard. If the "installed" location depended on the
> Emacs version, e.g. by having the version number as part of the
> directory name, then you could easily have one version of a package per
> Emacs version. The downside is that if you want to have all X versions
> of Emacs on a given system find the "same" package, you would have to
> install that package X times. But this seems like a small price to pay
> to be certain that each installed package version is known to work with
> that version of Emacs -- and that it has been byte-compiled by the right
> version of the byte compiler.
Ah, sorry, I don't think I was clear. When I said "package" above, I
meant elisp libraries. So, for example, maybe foo.el needs nxml version
<= n to work, but bar.el needs nxml version >= n+1. Is it possible to
install foo.el on my system?
Rupert
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 21:27 Emacs Package Management Stephen Eilert
2008-08-01 22:58 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-01 23:14 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-08-01 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-02 0:13 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-03 1:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-03 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-04 15:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-04 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-05 8:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-05 13:09 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-05 14:39 ` Paul R
2008-08-06 3:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2009-09-16 22:36 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-09-17 1:44 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 14:58 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-28 21:13 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-28 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-28 21:54 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-28 22:30 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-29 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-29 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 19:41 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 2:07 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 20:18 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-01 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-02 1:58 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-02 3:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-02 17:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-12 4:10 ` Thomas Lord
2009-09-12 22:38 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-12 23:30 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-13 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 9:07 ` joakim
2009-09-14 9:26 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-15 7:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 8:30 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-15 18:15 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:58 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-15 22:08 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-16 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-16 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 1:05 ` Geoff Gole
2009-09-17 19:50 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:55 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-17 8:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 8:37 ` joakim
2009-09-17 8:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 9:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 11:50 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-19 2:40 ` Bob Rogers
2009-09-19 12:10 ` Rupert Swarbrick [this message]
2009-09-17 14:24 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 15:04 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-17 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:21 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-13 17:00 ` Eric Schulte
2008-08-02 14:46 ` Paul R
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