From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Park Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Call for testing: Daily snapshot builds of Emacs for Ubuntu Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 17:06:24 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368317241 7575 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2013 00:07:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 00:07:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 12 02:07:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1UbJot-00022L-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 May 2013 02:07:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbJot-00027Q-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 May 2013 20:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbJol-000278-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 May 2013 20:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbJof-0008VO-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 May 2013 20:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ie0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::230]:61618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbJof-0008VE-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 May 2013 20:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ie0-f176.google.com with SMTP id at1so10240274iec.35 for ; Sat, 11 May 2013 17:07:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:from:date:x-google-sender-auth :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=TJOK1TdVo6W9r/k5No7pJDnrQMfDbIc337LqkuI4lUc=; b=rjS6al4rD7FHxicSj7rYpX7k3Wqr06nRDyefuTcI5Mk+hFdaoyEkXSBxXm8OtQlWlR hMPo8kf4rTKnV2VZ70aw1/v5c4xP4yOXPND7XU3HIxKqW6cpQJlfgmv9ZHUHePhhI8eI D7YmOeKWIqkD5j+2bGgpJ3lyIRRRCyLzuyAHqOqfFCgXd/5UaRkyg449Ja+f80maIQ5k eUEvPQUBQrDiQF8LYCDJLFlfhjTmpXzbPXx6j7TxedASjG/1oFRYcoEqOGSwLN/2I/Zk WrwwnVOpbippP7x3ykD6zgjnFSObPZbwK4FhMYPmkKNnmKZR8rh6EGYwuWWNLF04CN7Y NwTw== X-Received: by 10.50.118.37 with SMTP id kj5mr6142847igb.70.1368317224878; Sat, 11 May 2013 17:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.8.46 with HTTP; Sat, 11 May 2013 17:06:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: K_es0pXd8awtpSDhC_c1Ypi2YXg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c03::230 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159525 Archived-At: For the last couple of months, I have been working on enabling daily built Ubuntu packages of Emacs' trunk bzr branch, to make it easier for testers to install and test the latest code, hopefully narrowing the feedback loop between testers and developers. You may be familiar with the snapshot packaging work done by Damien Cassou; however his method is largely to build by hand once every couple weeks, I am using Launchpad recipes to achieve the same thing every day, in an entirely automated fashion. To achieve this, I have written all new packaging metadata from scratch, discarding many years of legacy cruft from the debian build system (where the debian packaging weighs in at 4900 lines of code, I have nearly achieved feature parity with only 1495 lines of code). My packages provide much of what you might expect from a debian package of Emacs: * Separate packages for Gtk3 and NoX builds * Files not unique to each build grouped into a single -common package * Uncompiled elisp files split into a separate -el package for optional installation, saving disk space. * postinst and prerm scripts provide support for the debian update-alternatives system * Can be installed alongside the existing emacs24 package that's available in debian/ubuntu. Known issues: * No support for elisp packages installed by dpkg. This issue is unfortunately more complicated than simply twiddling load-path and I'm still investigating it. However, I consider this issue quite minor because package.el support is *superb* in trunk and I highly recommend it's flexibility over the elisp packages installed by dpkg. If you want to give this a try in Ubuntu, you can run these commands: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot (or emacs-snapshot-nox as you prefer) Currently, builds are provided daily for Ubuntu Precise, Raring, and Saucy (latest LTS, latest stable, and dev series). There is a Quantal build available in the PPA, however I stopped making new Quantal builds the day Raring was released ;-) So please, take it for a spin, let me know how it's all working for you, and let's get all bugs fixed in trunk because distropatches are Eeeeeeevil! Oh, and here's the recipe, for the curious: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+recipe/emacs-daily