Sv: Install orgmode using its git repository.

[arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

I don't think it is very safe practice to install random Joe's code directly from
some git repo. We have not yet seen malicious code (not what I know) in
Emacs community, but Emacs in that respect is as bad as MS Office from
time when VBA scripts (and viruses) were shared wildly around, or a web
browserwith JS that can do anything. Remember time when JS was off by default
in all browsers?  Elisp can do whatever on your computer, so you should be
careful what you install. Installing from random git repos can open you for
more security problems then needed. I do clone lots from gitlab/github, but
I always look at the code myself before I ever run it.

Another point is that installing from git and different branches as it is possible
with straight.el  or quelpa (is what OP actually wants)  can eventually lead to
incompatibility between code that might be much harder to detect. I personally
don't want to  bother with latest-latest of all latest because eventually it could
become a spagheti code of possible incompatibility and clashes.
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Skickat: den 28 december 2020 06:40
Till: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Kopia: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Ämne: Re: Install orgmode using its git repository.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 1:21 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> >> BTW, you can also install the latest code from Git via package.el:
> >>
> >>     M-x url-handler-mode RET       ;; Assuming it's not already enabled
> >>     C-x C-f https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/org.tar RET
> >>     M-x package-install-from-buffer RET
> >
> > If I want to implement the above codes as a package-install-from-repo
> > function with the pakcage's URL as the argument, then how should I
> > rewrite the above code?
>
> Not sure what you're asking.  Such a function would be a welcome
> addition to package.el, if that's what you mean.

I just noticed that this question has been discussed on stackexchange:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/51586/is-there-a-package-manager-for-emacs-that-can-use-git-repositories-directly

also, by the author of straight.el:
https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#comparison-to-other-package-managers

Regards
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
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