From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another 'best' practices question ?? Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:23:26 +0300 Message-ID: <87hcqsd34h.fsf@moley.org> References: <1178214443.3172.18.camel@CASE> <463A22EF.7060707@gmail.com> <1178220921.3172.31.camel@CASE> <463ACED2.3000006@physik.hu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178292145 18600 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 15:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 15:22:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 17:22:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hjzbx-0007MD-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:22:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjzib-0000VR-JQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjziO-0000Qp-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjziN-0000QV-Bp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjziN-0000QS-5V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hjzbi-0007oM-Ht for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjzbW-0001p3-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:21:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:21:54 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:21:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w2SY202lgxlzEiIj2no0Lg1v2KU= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:43666 Archived-At: Quoth Tom Tromey : > I'd like to plug ELPA here though. If enough things are packaged we > could move away from manually hacking load-path and instead just > manage packages via a buffer-menu-like mode. See: > > http://tromey.com/elpa/ Just did what ^^^ tells me to do in my apt-installed 'snapshot Emacs' (22.0.95) and package-menu-refresh encounters a: let: Symbol's function definition is void: read-from-whole-string error. Indeed, the only read-from-* functions I have to hand are: read-from-string and read-from-minibuffer You may need to include the read-from-whole-string function definition in package.el as it's clearly not a stock function, or maybe globally replacing read-from-whole-string with read-from-string in package.el will suffice. I don't know because I don't know what read-from-whole-string is supposed to do. Or maybe, some version sniffing is all that's needed... If I had time I'd dig deeper but... ELPA sounds like a good concept though. HTH Sebastian