From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing binaries with package.el Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:45:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3fdcbe78-969e-f9e1-2a9d-a5f8494c35b3@mit.edu> <800f9003-b831-74d6-2525-0f45401a7857@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486489662 26805 195.159.176.226 (7 Feb 2017 17:47:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:47:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 07 18:47:37 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cb9rI-0005sM-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:47:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb9rO-0002cd-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb9rI-0002cY-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:47:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb9rE-00050P-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:47:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42602 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb9rD-0004zq-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cb9qD-0003bb-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:46:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cq8gnB5nHUn/KBbSTvCLf476pWo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212108 Archived-At: > against others libs. So an ELPA like system for pre-built modules is > probably not a good idea... Notice that ELPA packages have always shipped in source form (even the .el files are byte-compiled on the user's machine). So it's only natural to expect dynloaded modules distributed via ELPA to be distributed in source form and compiled during installation. Stefan