From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to update core extensions (Gnus)? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:52:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87wq2z610j.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425300840 17982 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2015 12:54:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:54:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 13:53:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPr5-0005h7-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPr4-0001E3-N7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPqD-0000MY-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:53:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPq8-0007Ut-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPq8-0007Uk-G0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:52:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPq5-0005KS-2q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:52:49 +0100 Original-Received: from charm-ecran.irisa.fr ([131.254.101.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:52:49 +0100 Original-Received: from alan.schmitt by charm-ecran.irisa.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:52:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: charm-ecran.irisa.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vj0oM5k6JZs5UCHKTQgffKOIB8k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102976 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015-03-02 07:23, torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > Contrary to my long-held belief in the stagnation of the Gnus codebase > (I was under the impression it had been untouched since 2009), Gnus > has been revived and I want to implement changes that are newer than > my current 25.0.5 emacs version. But it looks from my package manager > that Gnus isn't something that I can, for instance, grab from > Melpa. What's the best practice for updating a core package like this? > Can I clone http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git and cause emacs to respect > the clone over the built-in? Should I? I use the git version of gnus. I simply do "make" after checking it out, then I have this in my init.el: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (add-to-list 'load-path "~/src/gnus/lisp/") (require 'gnus-load) #+end_src Alan =2D-=20 OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJU9F0eAAoJEAQNCjtO0uXHtokH/0pjW+Vz0MY1ghrZ5d3FhoWz 95iIEQjidYmi4E9q+sNk9VYPeaF4oI/hnC0+doV+XzL/SkW+5nmOoInVokqZQ2wd LjILBBFDZ4g0rZiZ4cE8a18PZ5Ob2mWYLecIx1T99xWwf5fEWTlX7Lru48ZgM1C5 nq7VfgRdYEXkR9XUWgjn4SgwKKisrJaTQw7XwoPLVMksocN3nxfs+XofXXSdkc1h 9ys1w+xZDjp42cZPujq7D60m8U5BRJyIOmVhx56NmsdJYXgHucrcNi0CmihB90lh HCxe7ae+uxiNY+HP8EX7RXIm80EIw4+iiymVuhFOFbq+kRE08s5sUqDPPJW0RBw= =1SQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--