Re: nongnu ELPA and slime

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>>>>>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>     > Peter Hull <peterhull90@gmail.com> writes:
>     >> Hi,
>     >> 
>     >> Is this list the correct place to discuss nongnu ELPA?
>
>     > Sure.
>
>     >> I've come across a problem with the latest (2.29.1) SLIME package
>     >> when installed from ELPA. Basically the package appears to
>     >> install without problems but none of its functions are registered
>     >> so it cannot be activated. There is more discussion on
>     >> https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/808
>     >> 
>     >> What I believe is happening is that the slime-2.29.1.tar on ELPA
>     >> is being constructed without its hand-written slime-autoloads.el
>     >> file. At install time, an autoload file is generated which
>     >> doesn't work, because the relevant functions in SLIME are not
>     >> marked with autoload cookies. The release tarball on github does
>     >> have the autoloads file, as does slime-20240125.1336 from MELPA.
>
>     > Do you know why they don't mark their functions with autoload
>     > cookies?  Writing a manual autoload file is very unusual.
>
>     >> Unfortunately I've only ever been a user of emacs packages so I
>     >> don't understand how it all works. Is there a way to specify that
>     >> the slime-autoloads.el file needs to be included in the package,
>     >> or will the relevant bits of SLIME need to be annotated so the
>     >> generated file is functional?
>
>     > It would be imaginable to configure the ELPA build server to not
>     > overwrite the slime-autoloads.el file, but I'd first like to
>     > understand why they take this route in the first place.
>
>     > FWIW the quick fix for this issue is to add this to your init.el
>
>     > (autoload 'slime-mode "slime")
>
> (autoload 'slime-mode "slime") doesn't work for me.

It depends on what you do.  In my case I also have a hook configured in
my configuration (the next line in the snippet you quoted), which loads
up slime upon opening a lisp-mode buffer.

>
> I  need (require 'slime-autoloads) for slime from the git repository.

The point is that this is not available on NonGNU ELPA, because
elpa-admin.el is regenerating the file.

> Best wishes