From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hbarw95a.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwqaudjs.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8739mauad1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyenks4o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqpage4u.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbakd9f2.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301520609 4044 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 21:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 23:30:05 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 1Q52xj-0000aP-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q52xi-0000jT-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54819 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q52xe-0000jO-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q52xd-0007vE-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:2067 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q52xd-0007v1-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:53 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAAqgk01MCo6K/2dsb2JhbAClVXiIebYghWoElhY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,270,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="98719871" Original-Received: from 76-10-142-138.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.142.138]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 30 Mar 2011 17:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A16B85905D; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:29:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87hbakd9f2.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:28:49 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 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:137933 Archived-At: >>> 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