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: How to update core extensions (Gnus)? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:23:56 -0500 Message-ID: <87wq2z610j.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425299202 22704 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2015 12:26:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:26:42 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Help List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 13:26:37 2015 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 1YSPOY-0000F5-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:24:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPOX-0003x0-Sl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPOG-0003su-5f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:24:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPOA-0006AT-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qc0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c01::231]:35716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSPOA-0006AP-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: by qcyl6 with SMTP id l6so24141118qcy.2 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 04:23:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=lJ+lnXzvTB3eWnCO4cGyqNI7lTh3qxnrJNJ6wlnxWJA=; b=LXeVZYmB6vE0kCg01CQEnFwH9JPtpTRxeBYyvjS5usOORXDgj+fFJUG1oTrGMKyFQH uEWpQlAX6WmQs8XTecCrFqMsQlTHG4maVBXyj877Y9NJtHE9jdOdTb2x+22TeVdfrIbL dmWu/YKRHHAjPldgZyCNTIc0YVf6ckT5fQA2cCIh6YbxkWWGsgT4Ua4MBBZvJnsnElyw whBbbqkNeurZm4S2MKQaIkoM2+881QkkuS2vAOc9FT7rpM8Lbud+5SNFIFvIgLEuwW6h jJE8ly3C4m14vG7NIWkJ+vy56hCu6qpNntBwIK2E+/EaKEEU4hIsntYk8s4ai7K5kkd+ 4KHQ== X-Received: by 10.55.42.85 with SMTP id q82mr5553166qkh.55.1425299038216; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 04:23:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain ([2601:0:a640:1577:ee55:f9ff:feb5:5589]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i185sm8246114qhc.49.2015.03.02.04.23.56 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Mar 2015 04:23:56 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c01::231 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:102975 Archived-At: 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?