From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another 'best' practices question ?? Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:46:58 +0300 Message-ID: <878xc41l5p.fsf@moley.org> References: <1178214443.3172.18.camel@CASE> <463A22EF.7060707@gmail.com> <1178220921.3172.31.camel@CASE> <463ACED2.3000006@physik.hu-berlin.de> <87hcqsd34h.fsf@moley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178304466 963 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 18:47:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 18:47:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 20:47:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hk2oh-0002Xb-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:47:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2vM-0006YZ-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2vC-0006YT-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2vA-0006YG-Vo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2vA-0006YD-Rk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk2oV-0004YL-5l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2oN-0008Ca-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:47:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b86TAiiOyUxNQ0G4ID9JRpCQdEc= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43687 Archived-At: Quoth Tom Tromey : >>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey writes: > > Tom> Oops. That is fixed in the next release (I'll push it soon). > > Haha, I found what happened -- I released package.el 0.3 a while ago, > but I neglected to upload it to ELPA. How ironic! Don't let an oversight, however ironic, discourage you ;-) > I've uploaded 0.3 now. The reported bug is fixed there. > > I haven't yet made it simple to upgrade package.el using itself. I'm > considering adding that in a future version. Meanwhile you'll have to > download package.el by hand and install it over the old copy. The > direct link is: > > http://tromey.com/elpa/package.el > > ... but if you haven't yet installed package.el you probably should > just use the auto-installer. Now all is well. Updated the list, and installed (and played a game of) sudoku without any problems. I haven't tried downloading games from the net or anything like that yet. Nice one geezer. (Yes, I'm from London). I've no idea if this is of any interest to you but there were a couple of warnings during compilation: In get-board-wget: sudoku.el:1258:18:Warning: reference to free variable `sudoku-wget-process' In get-board-w3: sudoku.el:1281:7:Warning: url-retrieve called with 1 argument, but requires 2-3 Regarding ELPA, a couple of suggestions if I may be so bold: 1. How about 'installed' rather than in the status column. 2. A hint as to how to run the newly installed package (not in the description because there isn't room, but somewhere). For instance, having installed sudoku in a snip, I then had to navigate to the source file and read the commentary to find out that I had to eval (require 'sudoku') before I was good to go. 3. 'g' in the Package buffer is described as 'revert'. Is this not better described as 'refresh'? Sebastian