Re: [PATCH] Make `package-install-from-buffer' work on directories

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

> The following patch to `package.el' makes it so that
> `package-install-from-buffer' (and `install-file') works on dired buffers.
> Before, they'd just work on .el and .tar files.

Sounds useful (my own install.el of years ago offered that same
functionality ;-).

I wonder about the implications of having a new `dir' value for
package-desc-kind.  Please add a comment somewhere discussing when
exactly that value can appear (since AFAICT you haven't updated all
uses of package-desc-kind to accommodate that new value, and I think
this value can indeed only appear in some of those uses).


        Stefan