From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.auctex.devel,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating the GNU ELPA package of AucTeX Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:42:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87wqmyqrkg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <878uzj639h.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> <877gey9x8b.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378194167 28135 80.91.229.3 (3 Sep 2013 07:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 07:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: auctex-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 03 09:42:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGlGE-0005VV-N4 for gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGlGE-0004an-65 for gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGlGC-0004YH-5Z for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGlGB-0003Ba-4p for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGlGB-0003BW-11; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56621 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGlGA-00025P-D6; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3312EE08CE; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:42:39 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <877gey9x8b.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:32:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: auctex-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion list for AUCTeX developers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:3209 gmane.emacs.devel:163152 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> I've hoped that with the new Git ELPA, we could just checkout the >>> savannah auctex repository as submodule, and then add some hacks to the >>> makefiles to produce tarballs suitable for ELPA. Won't work, no? >> >> No, because: >> >> I'd very much prefer not having to run code from >> the package itself. >> >> so I can't just run your makefile rule(s). > > Ok, I see. It is not clear to me why the act of importing a runnable version of AUCTeX into ELPA should be precluded from running a Makefile rule. It is not like ELPA can directly access git repositories and extract whatever it wants, so the import will always involve explicit steps. > By omitting preview, that would be solved, too. preview-latex is an integral part of AUCTeX by now. That involved moving files, dependencies, combining documentation and so on. Ripping it out of ELPA is not just going to be work, but is also not extremely likely to make people happy. -- David Kastrup