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From: Tony Zorman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	felician.nemeth@gmail.com, 60418@debbugs.gnu.org,
	stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 16:36:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ednyol56.fsf@hyperspace> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5ynizwt.fsf@posteo.net>

On Mon, May 01 2023 20:01, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Tony Zorman <soliditsallgood@mailbox.org> writes:
>> +(defun use-package-normalize--vc-arg (arg)
>> +  "Normalize possible arguments to the `:vc' keyword.
>> +ARG is a cons-cell of approximately the form that
>> +`package-vc-selected-packages' accepts, plus an additional `:rev'
>> +keyword.  If `:rev' is not given, it defaults to `:last-release'.
>> +
>> +Returns a list (NAME SPEC REV), where (NAME . SPEC) is compliant
>> +with `package-vc-selected-packages' and REV is a (possibly nil,
>> +indicating the latest commit) revision."
>> +  (cl-flet* ((mk-string (s)
>> +	       (if (and s (stringp s)) s (symbol-name s)))
>> +             (mk-sym (s)
>> +               (if (and s (stringp s)) (intern s) s))
>> +	     (normalize (k v)
>
> It seems there is inconsistent spacing here.

Whoops, some tabs must have snuck into the code. 

>> +** use-package
>> +
>> ++++
>> +*** New ':vc' keyword.
>> +This keyword enables the user to control how packages are fetched by
>> +utilising 'package-vc.el'.  By default, it relays its arguments to
>
> I would not add the .el at the end.

Is there a standard way to refer to packages? I feel like `package-vc'
would be too easy to mistake for a function/variable, but maybe that is
just paranoia.

>> +'package-vc-install', but -- when combined with the ':load-path'
>> +keyword -- it can also call upon 'package-vc-install-from-checkout'
>> +instead.  If no revision is given via the ':rev' argument, use-package
>> +falls back to the last release (via 'package-vc-install's
>> +':last-release' argument).  To check out the last commit, use ':rev
>> +:newest'.
>
> I feel like this is too much information for the NEWS file, the first
> sentence should be enough.

I think it's not totally unprecedented in terms of word count, but sure,
if you think it's too long I wouldn't be opposed to shortening it. 

> If you want to, I can make all these changes in your patch if you ack
> them.  I'll try and test the code in the coming days to see if it all
> works, and with John's and Eli's blessing will apply them to master.

Given my schedule for the next few weeks, this would be absolutely
fantastic—thank you!

-- 
Tony Zorman | https://tony-zorman.com/





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-02 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-29 18:43 bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found] ` <handler.60418.B.167238381823776.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-01-14 12:48   ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-31 14:13     ` Felician Nemeth
2023-03-31 15:38       ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-07 14:11         ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-08  8:48           ` Felician Nemeth
2023-04-08  9:06             ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-08  9:25               ` Felician Nemeth
2023-04-08 10:41                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-11 14:10                   ` Felician Nemeth
2023-04-12  7:12                 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-12  7:34                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-12  9:00                     ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-16 15:43                       ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-16 16:10                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 19:39                           ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-18 12:13                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-19 17:38                               ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-22  9:26                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-22 11:34                                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-23  5:51                                     ` John Wiegley
2023-04-22 11:32                                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-23  6:07                                   ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-23 12:35                                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-04-24 12:36                                       ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 19:43                                         ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 20:01                                           ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-02 13:18                                             ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 13:59                                               ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-02 15:09                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 14:36                                             ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-05-02 12:40                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 14:22                                             ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 15:16                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-04  8:13                                                 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-04 10:39                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05  5:04                                                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-05  5:36                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05  5:49                                                       ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-05  6:53                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 17:15                                                           ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-05 18:45                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 18:50                                                               ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-06 19:13                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07  7:34                                                                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-06 19:39                                                                 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-07  8:52                                                                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-16 19:30                                                                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-17  5:42                                                                       ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-16 16:18                         ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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