Re: How to reload an updated library?

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

On 2015-03-02T12:50:28+1100, Tory S. Anderson said:

 TSA> I've never been quite clear in emacs on the meanings of 
 library, TSA> package, extension... I think I mean package, such 
 as what you TSA> download from `m-x list-packages`: in this case, 
 a whole program TSA> like Helm which includes many .el files.

In my experience, in the context of Emacs, a 'package' is 
something that is downloaded from one of the ELPAs (Emacs Lisp 
Package Archives) - GNU ELPA, MELPA, MELPA-Stable, Marmalade 
etc. If you're installing Helm by cloning the Git repo and loading 
it manually, you're actually not making use of the Emacs package 
system. i would recommend installing Helm from one of the ELPAs, 
and then using the upgrade functionality of Emacs' package 
system[1] - when you upgrade a package, it will usually (again, in 
my experience) get reloaded once the local package has been 
updated.

Things that aren't actually available for processing by 
`package.el` i would refer to as 'extensions' or 'libraries', 
regardless of how many ELisp source files they include.


Alexis.

[1] E.g. by doing M-x package-list-packages, then typing U to mark 
all upgradeable packages, then typing x to start the upgrade 
process.