Re: Subject: Call for testers for GNU Hyperbole 5.12, a large, useful Emacs package

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Great to hear that the project is back!
> Thanks.  We would very highly value your feedback as you are always right
> on topic and deep into things.

Is there a
Git/Hg/DaRCS/Arch/RCS/CSSC/Monotone/MetaCVS/Bazaar/Codeville/OpenCM/Fossil/...
repository somewhere?

> Really, you should be able to just set an archive path and then call
> package-install and the right things should happen but that is not the case
> presently.

I agree.  Please report it as a bug (aka feature-request)..

>> There's gotta be a better way.
> We are open to suggestions.

I think you can:

    Add

    (require 'package)
    (add-to-list 'package-archives '("RSW-Packages"
                                     . "http://www.plasmas.biz/rswe/") t)

    to the .emacs and then do

    M-x package-refresh-contents RET
    M-x package-install RET hyperbole RET

And I think you should also be able to do:

    M-x url-handler-mode RET
    M-x package-install-from-file RET
    http://www.plasmas.biz/rswe/hyperbole-<version>.tar RET

And I'd argue that we should add something like

    M-x package-install-from-archive RET
    http://www.plasmas.biz/rswe RET
    hyperbole RET


-- Stefan