bug#18332: 24.3.93; Convenience is a malformed function when installing ELPA package

[Fabrice Niessen <fni-news-TA4HMoP+1wHrZ44/DZwexQ@public.gmane.org>]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Fabrice Niessen wrote:
>> regarding the file `helm-R-pkg.el' whose contents is:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (define-package "helm-R" "20120819.1714" "helm-sources and some utilities for
>> GNU R." '((helm "20120517") (ess "20120509")) :url
>> "https://github.com/myuhe/helm-R.el" :keywords ("convenience"))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Adding a quote in front of the `keywords' list does solve the problem,
>
> IIUC the helm-R-pkg.el is malformed and so the same applies as the last
> time this was reported:
>
>     Presumably re-running package-install or causing make to rebuild
>     this file should fix the problem, but if it doesn't, give us some
>     details.
>
> (It looks like that file is pretty old, since it has dates in 2012.)
>
>> but Stefan said it wasn't a problem in the thread
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-02/msg00172.html.
>
> No, he said whether "nil" was quoted or not did not matter.

OK, misreminded that stuff.

Anyway, I got the exact same problem in many other "ELPA" packages
(Dired+, Helm, YASnippet, etc.) though not all (not in Dired-single,
Fuzzy, Idle-require to name a few).

Half wrong, half right. I had to delete the package-pkg.el(c) files, in
order to be able to launch Cygwin Emacs-w32. Dunno why the exact same
config works with native Emacs, and not with Cygwin, why both programs
go and fetch their packages at the same place on my file system...

I need more hints on this. Maybe things will clear up in the future?

Best regards,
Fabrice

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Fabrice Niessen
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