Re: Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> outside of using elpa. For instance, I know that there are people who
> package Emms for Debian and other OS' using their own package
> managers. I don't want to rock their boat if possible.

Those people can package ELPA packages their eyes closed (try `apt
search elpa-` to see why I think so). They will likely stop using their
ad-hoc packaging once it's available via GNU ELPA and will use their
generic support for packaging ELPA packages instead.

> I made a file in the top-level of the emms distribution named
> emms-elpa.el. emms-elpa.el contains the headers (Author, Version,
> Package-Requires, etc.), followed by:

The file that contains those headers *has* to be called <pkg>.el, so if
you call it `emms-elpa.el` the package will have to be called `emms-elpa`.

> ;;;###autoload (load "lisp/emms-auto" nil 'nowarn)

LGTM.

> You can see it here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emms.git/tree/emms-elpa.el
>
> lisp/emms-auto.el is generated by lisp/Makefile to contain autoloads for
> the .el files under lisp/

Perfect.

> I don't understand how that would be enough to provide a valid load-path
> to the files in the lisp/ directory though.

That won't be enough.  You probably want to add

    (add-to-list 'load-path (directory-file-name (or (file-name-directory load-file-name) (car load-path))))

to that `lisp/emms-auto.el` file.


        Stefan