From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Are there an elisp package manager like apt-get or cpan? Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: <44DF24A9.8050801@speakeasy.net> References: <1155441044.103183.254590@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: gebser@speakeasy.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155474651 29778 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2006 13:10:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 15:10:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCFjn-0002Md-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCFjm-0006vR-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCFjY-0006qp-Hb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:10:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCFjW-0006lr-Bz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCFjW-0006lX-71 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.17.117.8] (helo=mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GCFp6-0006N8-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 10553 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2006 13:10:23 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 13 Aug 2006 13:10:23 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060725) Original-To: GNU Emacs List In-Reply-To: <1155441044.103183.254590@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36658 Archived-At: Žorne wrote: > chylli wrote: >> Hi. Are there an emacs lisp package manager like apt-get in debian or >> cpan in perl ? When I want to install a package, I just run a command, >> then emacs will find proper package in proper web site and install >> it. > > Funny, i was just thinking of writing one the other day. I got to > thinking that it would really be trivial to write something using > ange-ftp or tramp or whatever. Something like asdf-install for Emacs. > > .... I'll give a pitch for RPM. There's been many a time when I've wanted to upgrade emacs or elisp, but know that if I do, forever after I'll no longer be able to use RPM for upgrades and I'll have to always upgrade emacs and elisp manually. So forget about enterprise environments. Standards aren't much use if there's a bazillion of them and they're all incompatible with one another. So why bother with an app that will see limited use and, more than likely, will be replaced in a few years by something far more practical? My $0.02.