From: Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to update core extensions (Gnus)?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:39:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d24r375q.fsf@nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wq2z610j.fsf@gmail.com
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?
Someone else may comment on that "stagnation" thing!
Yes, you can do it and if you fancy trying it you should.
Clone the repository and study the README file.
atb
Glyn
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-02 12:23 How to update core extensions (Gnus)? Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-02 12:39 ` Glyn Millington [this message]
2015-03-02 12:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-03-03 1:34 ` Les Harris
[not found] <mailman.1130.1425299050.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-03-02 23:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-03 19:06 ` Tory S. Anderson
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