Re: emacs-29 44ebd9cbd56 2/2: Eglot: explain how to update Eglot in manual (bug#62720)

[Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, at 1:13 PM, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, at 9:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:52:48 +0300
> >> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com
> >> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >> > 
> >> > But that's the thing: upgrading to a recent version of Eglot is not only 
> >> > for the more advanced user. Those can easily go the 'M-x list-packages 
> >> > C-s eglot i x' route.
> >> > 
> >> > It is those who do the minimum customization and/or are just introduced 
> >> > to Emacs, can miss out with more likelihood the longer the steps to 
> >> > upgrade Eglot are going to be.
> >> 
> >> At the risk of sounding like a broken record: introducing a new
> >> command for upgrading Eglot has the same problem as the original one:
> >> users of Emacs 29 will need to use a different procedure for upgrading
> >> Eglot than they used before.
> > But users of Emacs 28- would be able to use it too. So at least the docs could list just one method.
> 
> But they don't need it, because package-install does the right thing to
> begin with?
> 
By default, package-install indeed "does the tight thing". But it doesn't upgrade the already-installed package.

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