From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Difficulties with elpa repository. Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:21:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20151127082151.GA1782@acm.fritz.box> References: <20151125132923.GE2007@acm.fritz.box> <20151126142307.GC1738@acm.fritz.box> <20151126172114.GA2383@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448612409 3779 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2015 08:20:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 09:19:54 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a2EG0-0006PZ-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:19:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2EG3-0001MK-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2EG0-0001MD-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:19:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2EFv-00055Y-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:14860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2EFv-00054b-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 21550 invoked by uid 3782); 27 Nov 2015 08:19:45 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5B146A65.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.20.106.101]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:19:44 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 2403 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Nov 2015 08:21:51 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195352 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:37:39PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I've found the problem. (Well, the first problem, anyway. ;-) > Good, thanks. And don't come back until it works. IT WORKS!!!! > > Maybe some sort of version number in the -autoloads.el's might help > > avoid this sort of blunder. > The file is only passed to "load" currently, so having to read it before > loading it would be kind of inconvenient. I think the "add to load-path > before loading the file" was the only assumption made, and now that > we don't even make that assumption, there shouldn't be any reason to > change any remaining assumption. > This said, there are a few things around -autoloads.el that could > be changed (mostly, I think it should be merged with -pkg.el, and > renamed so its name is constant rather than depending on ). OK. Thanks for the help in the last couple of days. > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).