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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to reload an updated library?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:08:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj7wqhg0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egp86ucb.fsf@gmail.com>


On 2015-03-02T12:50:28+1100, Tory S. Anderson said:

 TSA> I've never been quite clear in emacs on the meanings of 
 library, TSA> package, extension... I think I mean package, such 
 as what you TSA> download from `m-x list-packages`: in this case, 
 a whole program TSA> like Helm which includes many .el files.

In my experience, in the context of Emacs, a 'package' is 
something that is downloaded from one of the ELPAs (Emacs Lisp 
Package Archives) - GNU ELPA, MELPA, MELPA-Stable, Marmalade 
etc. If you're installing Helm by cloning the Git repo and loading 
it manually, you're actually not making use of the Emacs package 
system. i would recommend installing Helm from one of the ELPAs, 
and then using the upgrade functionality of Emacs' package 
system[1] - when you upgrade a package, it will usually (again, in 
my experience) get reloaded once the local package has been 
updated.

Things that aren't actually available for processing by 
`package.el` i would refer to as 'extensions' or 'libraries', 
regardless of how many ELisp source files they include.


Alexis.

[1] E.g. by doing M-x package-list-packages, then typing U to mark 
all upgradeable packages, then typing x to start the upgrade 
process.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-02  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1086.1425252146.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-03-01 23:44 ` How to reload an updated library? Emanuel Berg
2015-03-02  1:50   ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-02  2:08     ` Alexis [this message]
2015-03-02  2:22       ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-02  2:35         ` Alexis
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1093.1425262142.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-03-02  2:18       ` Joost Kremers
2015-03-02  2:40         ` Alexis
2015-03-01 23:22 Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-02  1:38 ` bernardo
2015-03-03 20:34 ` Vaidheeswaran C

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