From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:38:15 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87tyenks4o.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87hbarw95a.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwqaudjs.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8739mauad1.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301337873 20619 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2011 18:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:44:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 20:44:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HQR-00047S-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:44:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4HLO-0007xc-Ly for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43320 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4HKn-0007f3-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HKe-0004Yh-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HKe-0004YU-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HKc-0001A9-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:38:26 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:38:26 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:38:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jwNNioQeD4IO1qrC3ReRzjTpHzk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137791 Archived-At: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:20:37 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: SM> I know, but I don't think there's any fundamental good reason why we SM> can't tweak emacs/lisp/Makefile.in so that it gets things to work. >> They are packages, that's a great reason :) Yeah, you can do it, but >> it's going to break sooner or later. I like Chong's approach better >> than tweaking things. >> Also, isn't it better to put the rules inside the GNU ELPA (thus the >> "elpa" branch) than inside Emacs' lisp/Makefile.in, as Chong suggested? SM> Where they go doesn't matter much, yes.. The important part is to be SM> able to use them in-place and have them all activated from a single SM> place with "bzr up; make". OK. So who's going to do the work? And can you summarize what you're asking for after this discussion? Ted