From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing binaries with package.el
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:33:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo9ybxu0j.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lgtgmspv.fsf@hochschule-trier.de
[ BTW, I'd really like to see pdf-tools in elpa.git. ]
>> Cool. Can you explain a bit more? AFAICT pdf-tools tries to compile
>> a C program as part of its installation;
> Yes, that's it. There is simply a auto-load cookie above the
> installation Elisp. This gets copied by package to the auto-load file
> and evaluated as part of the final steps of installing the package.
> Its pretty ugly.
Any reason why you do it as part of the autoloads rather than as part of
the compilation of the package?
[ I can see some advantages, but I'm curious what were the reasons in
your case. ]
> It would be really helpful if package could provide some appropriate
> hooks, i.e pre-remove, post-install and when ever else it could be
> useful.
In the case of pdf-tools, what kind of pre-remove would be needed?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-09 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-07 2:09 Installing binaries with package.el Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-07 5:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-02-07 5:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-07 7:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-02-07 13:12 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-07 15:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-07 16:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-07 19:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-09 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-09 16:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-09 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-09 19:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-09 22:43 ` Stephen Leake
2017-02-08 18:40 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-09 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-02-09 21:55 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-10 6:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-07 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-07 16:16 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-07 16:58 ` Aurélien Aptel
2017-02-07 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-07 20:17 ` Achim Gratz
2017-02-07 21:58 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-07 23:34 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-02-08 1:35 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-08 18:52 ` Achim Gratz
2017-02-08 19:17 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08 19:44 ` Achim Gratz
2017-02-08 21:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-09 19:47 ` Achim Gratz
2017-02-09 20:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-09 22:48 ` Stephen Leake
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