From: Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: development practices for ELPA packages
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:04:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft54vzlj.fsf@rabkins.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861rgqck5r.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:36:16 -0800")
Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:
>
>> Right now I'm working on the next release of rt-liberation. I would like
>> to tell Emacs: "load all of the ELPA packages normally, but when you get
>> to rt-liberation please load my local, non-packaged, version from
>> /devel/rt-liberation"
>
> Stefan's suggestion works if your devel directory looks like an
> installed package. ada-mode doesn't; I put the devel version in
> load-path, before the installed package directory.
That works for me. I'll use this technique to make the "devel" version
override the package I'm working on.
Thank you, and thank you to Stefan and Michael as well for providing
input.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-20 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-18 21:47 development practices for ELPA packages Yoni Rabkin
2020-11-18 22:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 23:36 ` Stephen Leake
2020-11-20 15:04 ` Yoni Rabkin [this message]
2020-11-20 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-19 7:40 ` Michael Albinus
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