From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to update core extensions (Gnus)? 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22a 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:103001 Archived-At: 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 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? :)