From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Async package.el Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:59:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <55228FD2.3080501@yandex.ru> <55239FA3.40301@yandex.ru> Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428400775 14344 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2015 09:59:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 09:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daiki Ueno , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 07 11:59:29 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-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 1YfQI4-0002Yg-9j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfQI3-00073A-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfQI1-000732-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfQHx-0000GO-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::232]:34388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfQHv-0000Ds-Pd; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: by lboc7 with SMTP id c7so38428515lbo.1; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 02:59:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=MChZd1E6H0du7sZQfUsN4m82Ndw5eR6gRvT+ysn1Qao=; b=j7jKITHMR2BSsE+Is/gxb7nG5Jpua8/nOXtKRfQDd4lMsqf8cTVGN4Os012RNyagMG BfgDfPsU519+xueg64ZSfHdQpd+UI5rr0wHz9+DkdKuzMev60B/P7En9U0QldZIZ7cDV N2TzKKAbOA+zAGW9qk6uY537laatXRsYVzkfsVPyjpu6r6aekm1qqVfq8vtBN52r5tDY 6EooeesoYMZN6rzb2WiLaVGODiQvGU2G2KW+QGtLMNcDip8sybolt0KAUgtL2WDeL9ok yAegrFn65TtjOPqI+vt1EC2eSWrMSEafiyCc4GRlbiE02LD/Wf1KfIFfkcBUJbFC/XzJ km2Q== X-Received: by 10.152.45.101 with SMTP id l5mr16699876lam.95.1428400758727; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 02:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.150.131 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 02:59:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55239FA3.40301@yandex.ru> X-Google-Sender-Auth: oxZVKSx7MEGD6wz9NQoOdzCH510 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::232 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185065 Archived-At: 2015-04-07 10:13 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Gutov : > On 04/07/2015 08:31 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote: > >> Though maybe it might be off topic, I was wondering if it is possible to >> do the compilation (and perhaps downloading / unpacking) phase in a >> separate Emacs process, so that the running Emacs session is not >> affected by loading the compile-time requirements of a package. > > > https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async/blob/master/async-bytecomp.el > implements something like that. This is exactly what I've done in Paradox as well. There were a few bugs at first, but I think they're all ironed out now so it should be very doable. Still, I'd need to hear how other people on the dev list feels about using a second Emacs instance for something. Last time I mentioned it to Stefan he said he'd prefer for the installation to be done by the running Emacs.