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: Async package.el Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:06:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428430070 6619 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2015 18:07:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 18:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 07 20:07:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXuO-0003Yo-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXuN-0007SY-Ud for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXtn-0006Mv-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXtj-00019A-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:58783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXtj-000194-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0F785F14; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC1C1E5B8C; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A30B1B4122; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:06:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Mon, 6 Apr 2015 11:46:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185102 Archived-At: > This is a heads up that I've pushed some commits that implement > asynchronicity in package.el. Thanks, Artur. > - New variable `package-menu-async'. If this is non-nil the package menu > uses asynchronous operations when refreshing the archives and when > installing packages. For the purpose of testing on the devlist, I've set > the default to t. Good. > - Archives are refreshed all at the same time (which leads to a signficant > speed boost if you have several archives configured), so there's a new Good. > - Package downloads are performed in sequence, because it is generally not Good as well (we could refine this to allow a maximum of N outstanding downloads, but this is good enough for now). Stefan