Re: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I've also got working code that takes an ELPA package and copies it into
>> the core build.  It's quite simple to do actually, the documentation
>> needs improving and to plump in some configure options.  It would raise
>> the possibility of having a "Emacs minimal" core distribution (i.e. with
>> no "elpa" packages).  Interested?
>
> I think we need that, yes (e.g. we really should bundle Company with
> Emacs while we want to keep it in elpa.git).  But it's for Eli to decide
> if and how he wants such a thing.

I've pushed this to:

feature/core-elpa-by-copy

Currently, it's in as a feature

./configure --enable-elpa
./configure --enable-elpa=where-to-find-or-clone-elpa

Main features:

 - Works with externals or non-external packages.
 - Versions are specified by git SHA, so a version build will be
   repeatable.
 - Both code and tests are supported
 - It's customizable by package authors on ELPA.
 - Doesn't use package.el (I think this is an anti-feature, but tried
   that before and no one liked it)
 - It requires network access only if ELPA is not available locally, or if
   the Makefile which describes versions is updated
 - Works with make -j in which case it does a git clone which the C is building

None Features: 
 - Currently, only works with a single git repo (i.e. ELPA) which is
   hard coded.
 - Doesn't support documentation or info

To be done:
 - Give it prettier output
 - Clean ups.


Phil