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: Keeping an ELPA checkout Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301005336 18912 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 22:22:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:22:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 23:22:09 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 1Q2suu-0005nh-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:22:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2sut-00028L-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41414 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2suo-00028F-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2sun-0004Qs-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:11208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2sum-0004Qm-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.80.93.45]) by vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LIL00J4X23PN710@vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:21:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4B50B660F8; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:21:59 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 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:137656 Archived-At: I've been trying to use a checkout of ELPA with my "always run in-place" development of Emacs, and I see some difficulties: I currently basically add a symlink from emacs/lisp/packages to elpa/packages. A few tweaks are needed to convince Emacs to follow that link when building Elisp files. But this is too crude: 1- some files fail to compile (e.g. because they require ome package we don't distribute). 2- the automatic decision of what to include in load-path leads to shadows such as "auctex-11.86/style/url.el" vs "url/url.el". I think we need to come up with a way to do the above but more robustly. Stefan