From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:38 -0400 Message-ID: <87sjuavrj5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87hbarw95a.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwqaudjs.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301087219 24511 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 21:06:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 22:06:53 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 1Q3EDc-0007lW-EQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:06:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3EDb-0003Vn-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52054 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3EDT-0003Qz-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EDS-0005Vr-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:40422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EDS-0005VU-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014198.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.198]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2PL6eG1020624 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:40 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EBB1B16069E; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87fwqaudjs.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:53:59 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 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:137700 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > But ELPA packages are... packages! Everything in emacs/lisp is source > code, meant to work as you describe. Some ELPA packages happen to be > single-file libraries but you are trying to skip the installation and > activation steps which track dependencies, byte-compile, and adjust the > load path. Currently, we only have a script for deploying the elpa branch to an archive, i.e. to a place from which the packages can be installed. With a bit more work, we could add another script (or a Makefile rule) for *installing* all the packages in the archive to a given location (or even in place). By pointing `package-directory-list' to that directory, one would have all the packages in the archive installed in one step. This is probably what Stefan has in mind.