From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to update core extensions (Gnus)? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:39:29 +0000 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87d24r375q.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87wq2z610j.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425301677 32372 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2015 13:07:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:07:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 14:07:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YSQ4Y-0002ZW-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:07:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQ4X-0002Xg-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:07:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQ4H-0002WZ-UT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQ4D-0003cV-SL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQ4D-0003cI-Kb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQ3z-0002C9-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:07:06 +0100 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:07:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Monday of the Second Week of Lent, A.D. 2015 X-Shakespeare: "Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point." -- King Lear, I.1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kQldC8PAkjs3u8Rt/TiBj79Hmpk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102977 Archived-At: 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