On 2015-03-02 07:23, torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> Contrary to my long-held belief in the stagnation of the Gnus codebase
> (I was under the impression it had been untouched since 2009), Gnus
> has been revived and I want to implement changes that are newer than
> my current 25.0.5 emacs version. But it looks from my package manager
> that Gnus isn't something that I can, for instance, grab from
> Melpa. What's the best practice for updating a core package like this?
> Can I clone http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git and cause emacs to respect
> the clone over the built-in? Should I?

I use the git version of gnus. I simply do "make" after checking it out,
then I have this in my init.el:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/src/gnus/lisp/")
(require 'gnus-load)
#+end_src

Alan

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