From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62r08fj4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbakd9f2.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:28:49 -0500")
>>> The trunk-built Emacs may need to have been installed system-wide.
SM> No, that's undesirable.
> ...so are we then installing in the locally-compiled Emacs (modifying
> files under $trunk) or for the user (modifying init/custom files)?
No, I'd rather we only modify files under $elpa.
Then the user is in charge of adding a (load "$elpa/foo-bar.el") to his
.emacs (or site-start, ...).
Remember, this is a setup intended for maintainers, that you do once and
then you forget about it (because you just "bzr update; make").
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 22:21 Keeping an ELPA checkout Stefan Monnier
2011-03-25 8:19 ` Reiner Steib
2011-03-25 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-25 14:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-25 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-25 20:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-25 21:06 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-25 21:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-26 19:31 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-25 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-25 22:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-25 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-28 18:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-29 15:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 13:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-30 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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