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* Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
@ 2017-11-03 22:50 Deric Bytes
  2017-11-03 23:19 ` Drew Adams
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From: Deric Bytes @ 2017-11-03 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I am using el-get, should I just stick with it or move it all over to melpa. 

Do I gain or lose anything from switching? 
Can I easily select the latest git repos through the melpa interface?
Anyone else made the switch from being a dedicated el-get user to melpa?


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* RE: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
  2017-11-03 22:50 Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa Deric Bytes
@ 2017-11-03 23:19 ` Drew Adams
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  2017-11-04  0:55 ` Deric Bytes
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From: Drew Adams @ 2017-11-03 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Deric Bytes, help-gnu-emacs

> I am using el-get, should I just stick with it or move it all over to
> melpa.
> 
> Do I gain or lose anything from switching?
> Can I easily select the latest git repos through the melpa interface?
> Anyone else made the switch from being a dedicated el-get user to melpa?

This Emacs-Wiki page speaks to some of the differences:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/el-get



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* Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
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@ 2017-11-04  0:44   ` Deric Bytes
  2017-11-04  5:54     ` N. Raghavendra
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From: Deric Bytes @ 2017-11-04  0:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thanks Drew. There wiki has no dates, so I never know how relevant it is. Also, I knew about those differences when choosing el-get but wondered if anything had changed. I had recently looked at el-get and noticed that the core lisp code seemed unchanged for 2 years.

https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

And noticed that melpa had some git fetcher tags

https://github.com/melpa/melpa

:fetcher specifies the type of repository that :url or :repo points to. Melpa supports git, github, gitlab, hg (Mercurial), and wiki (for packages from Emacswiki.org).


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* Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
  2017-11-03 22:50 Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa Deric Bytes
  2017-11-03 23:19 ` Drew Adams
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@ 2017-11-04  0:55 ` Deric Bytes
  2017-11-04 22:57   ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Deric Bytes @ 2017-11-04  0:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi Drew, I found that there is a last updated message at the bottom. That article is over a year and a half old

Última vez editado 2016-04-13 22:40 UTC


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* Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
  2017-11-04  0:44   ` Deric Bytes
@ 2017-11-04  5:54     ` N. Raghavendra
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From: N. Raghavendra @ 2017-11-04  5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

At 2017-11-03T17:44:13-07:00, Deric Bytes wrote:

> I had recently looked at el-get and noticed that the core lisp code
> seemed unchanged for 2 years.

That is perhaps because it is a stable package, which works as expected,
and does not need any fundamental change.  Most of the additions to
El-Get now are either new recipes for packages, or modifications of
existing recipes.

Since the last few years, I have been using El-Get to manage the
installation of packages, and `use-package' to manage their
configuration.  With forms like

(el-get-bundle emacs-w3m
  :type github
  :pkgname "emacsmirror/w3m"
  :build `(("autoconf")
           ("./configure" ,(concat "--with-emacs=" el-get-emacs))
           ("make"))
  :info "doc")

(el-get-bundle emms :url "foo@bar.net:emms.git")

(el-get-bundle mediawiki
  :type github
  :pkgname "hexmode/mediawiki-el")

(el-get-bundle pdf-tools :checkout "2eaffae69a0b9f51b2740b0d6dd795088529e683")

in my init file, I can specify the sources of packages, the commands for
building them, their versions, etc.  This system has been working well,
and I have not needed to use another package manager.  In particular, I
don't use either the built in package system, or MELPA.

You may also want to look at

https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-el-get

Regards,
Raghu.

--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/



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* Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
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@ 2017-11-04 16:04       ` Deric Bytes
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From: Deric Bytes @ 2017-11-04 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thanks Raghu. 

I use el-get in the same manner. I was wondering if there was a better alternative. 



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* Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
  2017-11-04  0:55 ` Deric Bytes
@ 2017-11-04 22:57   ` Emanuel Berg
  2017-11-09 21:47     ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2017-11-04 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Deric Bytes wrote:

> I found that there is a last updated message
> at the bottom. That article is over a year
> and a half old

I think you can still trust it despite being so
recently compiled information.

(Emacs is from 1976-, and Lisp from 1958-!)

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




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* Re: Is it worth leaving el-get for melpa
  2017-11-04 22:57   ` Emanuel Berg
@ 2017-11-09 21:47     ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2017-11-09 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Saturday,  4 Nov 2017 at 23:57, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Deric Bytes wrote:
>
>> I found that there is a last updated message
>> at the bottom. That article is over a year
>> and a half old
>
> I think you can still trust it despite being so
> recently compiled information.
>
> (Emacs is from 1976-, and Lisp from 1958-!)

+1

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