From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to update core extensions (Gnus)?
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:06:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbihoq7z.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9u3rn18.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:34:59 +0100")
Thanks. I hope I'm not neurotic about it now :) I find that lately I've been in contact with developers of several of these extensions, and so I want to be able to test their fixes/improvements as soon as they mention they've updated the codebase.
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> 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?
>
> You know what they say in Barcelona: If you ever so
> slightly considered taking a psychedelic drug - you
> are thinking, "well, maybe" - then you should do it :)
>
> I hope and think Gnus isn't stagnating. Gnus is part
> of Emacs (it says "Version: 5.13" in gnus.el) so you
> should get updates automagically with the next version
> of Emacs.
>
> What gnus.el version do you have? You can also echo
> the `gnus-version' variable.
>
> By the way, this is your second question about getting
> the latest stuff in unorthodox ways. And you even use
> Emacs 25.0 (I have 24.4). You are not neurotic about
> this, now? :)
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2015-03-02 23:34 ` How to update core extensions (Gnus)? Emanuel Berg
2015-03-03 19:06 ` Tory S. Anderson [this message]
2015-03-02 12:23 Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-02 12:39 ` Glyn Millington
2015-03-02 12:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-03-03 1:34 ` Les Harris
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