From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] master 872014e: Prevent accidental deletion of .git Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151109013124.17711.29422@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448552584 9969 80.91.229.3 (26 Nov 2015 15:43:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "=?windows-1252?Q?Fabi=E1n?= E. Gallina" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Fitzsimmons Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 16:42:55 2015 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 1a1yhC-0007GB-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:42:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1yhE-0000by-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1ygy-0000ZJ-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1ygx-000784-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:33767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1ygt-00075N-H8; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id tAQFgU8e014071; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:31 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C207260222; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:42:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Thomas Fitzsimmons's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:34:23 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5502=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5502> : inlines <4037> : streams <1544461> : uri <2090028> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:195289 Archived-At: > BTW, I found myself being more focused on the "in place archive" use > case. I have no idea what "in-place archive" means here. AFAIK none of the code lets you generate an archive without making copies of the files (i.e. it's not "in-place"). > That's how I ended up invoking the process-archive target > directly which indirectly deleted .git (this is the one my patch now > prevents). [...] > Then one can test dependency resolution, byte-compilation and > compatibility on the "target Emacs" -- I test Emacs 24.1 through 24.5 > and master. Testing just against the default emacs on PATH (what "make" > does right now) is OK for development, but GNU ELPA should encourage > backward and forward compatibility. AFAIK "process-archive" won't byte-compile anything, so it's not very useful for that. It just shuffles things around so they're in the place and form expected for package-install. The purpose of the "in-place installation" method is so that those packages behave kind of like Emacs's bundled packages (except that you need to add the "packages" dir to your package-directory-list, so they won't appear in "emacs -Q" and after "cd .../emacs; make" you also have to do "cd .../elpa; make"). Just like Emacs's bundled packages, you don't need to "package-install" them, or even to choose which ones you want. Stefan