From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elpa packages and Makefiles Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:39:49 +0800 Message-ID: <87mwceujdm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <877g3j8dg9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405215390 5887 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2014 01:36:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:36:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 03:36:25 2014 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 1X68iF-0008Lo-2H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:36:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68iE-0001wa-MD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68hw-0001nQ-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68hr-0007jM-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68hr-0007iy-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X68hp-0007sX-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:35:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 111.199.151.233 ([111.199.151.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:35:57 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 111.199.151.233 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:35:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 111.199.151.233 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p/gf7Rf+dnkaH/HIFUrGe3/oib8= 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:98665 Archived-At: Grant Rettke writes: > To think through the process and decide how you would package it up > yourself, try setting > up an el-get recipe: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get > > Once you've got that thought through, you will be able to get any > package maintainer whatever they need to package up your software > because you will know precisely what steps you wanted to be performed. Thanks, Grant. In this case, I *am* the package maintainer, and I know what I want, I just don't know how Elpa interacts with Makefiles... > Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM > gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ > “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates > ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) > “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop > taking it seriously.” --Thompson > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Eric Abrahamsen > wrote: >> I'm slowly working on a getting a package Elpa-ready, and have just a >> few more questions. One is the role of a Makefile. >> >> The only targets I really need are compilation, autoloads, and texinfo. >> My understanding is that Elpa deployment will do all these things for me >> (the last dependent on the presence of ".texi" and "dir" >> files). I don't need a Makefile for that. >> >> But I would like to also make the package installable straight from >> github or other locations, in which case a Makefile will still be >> necessary. >> >> In the Elpa repo I've seen packages with Makefiles, with no Makefiles, >> and even with Makefiles that contain an "elpa" target. My question is, >> will Elpa deployment honor an existing Makefile (in which case, which >> targets are used?), ignore it, or conflict -- ie I should .elpaignore it >> or something. >> >> Thanks! >> E >> >>