From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: thorne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:52:12 -0700 Organization: impossible. 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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:71127 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: > Everybody who ever used the Ohio State Elisp Archive, ELL, or uploaded > or downloaded code from the Emacs Wiki. Just a couple of thoughts from an end-user. Safe to ignore. It seems like the basic logic in package.el could be useful for other related things. For instance, what's to stop one from writing a little code to use the url package to grab something from, say, the Google Usenet archives of gnu.emacs.sources, try to strip headers and `this is my first post to g.e.sources' blah blah and then feed it to package.el? Or a function like `gnus-install-lisp-package-from-message'? Same goes for source on the EmacsWiki. The function could just give a graceful error message if it couldn't extract the lisp, or if it was malformed as a package. Assuming the source had version info it could work just as well as something downloaded from an official repository. As for version conflicts with new releases of Emacs, isn't that something users expect to happen sometimes when they try to install anything that didn't come with their base Emacs? -- þ theron tlåx þ (compose-mail (concat "thorne@" (rot13 "gvzoeny") ".net"))