From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Les Harris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to update core extensions (Gnus)? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:34:31 -0800 Organization: Meta Message-ID: References: <87wq2z610j.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425346514 15979 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2015 01:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 01:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 03 02:35:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YSbjk-0008FY-KQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSbjj-00058U-Pg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSbjV-00058I-1m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSbjQ-0000z2-CP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:34:49 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSbjQ-0000ya-5e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:34:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSbjO-00088W-3K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:34:42 +0100 Original-Received: from c-73-221-95-202.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([73.221.95.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:34:42 +0100 Original-Received: from les by c-73-221-95-202.hsd1.wa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:34:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-73-221-95-202.hsd1.wa.comcast.net X-Face: IIU%0.c15s2*Y@E103$=U#KH)!IoX\dh96~f,; `6*JwSGCX"@(,a=l+iXp30Ra|!K$6/8uW 8RD,5{v!5{oH#81_x2yFuytAm^Cj9?),Rk[1E~"j$/W%Uzk%f)"6}#/NH0^iJKIb7eJF; A%RqJ8Di$ X|b.Cv"jL#1QgKJgs*UYQ~"cc X-Get-A-Life: Don't you have better things to be doing? User-Agent: It's a secret to everybody Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFz UkdCAK7OHOkAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAA9Q TFRFAAAAPLz9/Jg4iHAA////8qpT8gAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAl2cEFnAAAAMAAA ADAAzu6MVwAAAL9JREFUOMuV0sENgzAMBdBv6ABhAxQWqMoCOXT/mWrHttIcMCZCCP2HHDuA77wa gJc8IAccL3V/AI3jerzT0OtwjiRoXI9TK4UgM8Hj0yrFIFHV+PRKMWDl4GOSgb67mY93A382tRvD ssNsPsQLkAPc0W31hkNooAIoyFMCem6Lymg3gG1j4rusBLSR9c0TwP8xaU5zqRikY9qSIEnxehnQ AR+CHqL1fA9N5yKbb3yoayA/DHshAd4ri1y91iX8ADKmqs3NujZhAAAAJXRFWHRjcmVhdGUtZGF0 ZQAyMDA5LTAxLTMwVDA1OjEyOjMyKzAwOjAwaWad5gAAACV0RVh0bW9kaWZ5LWRhdGUAMjAwOS0w MS0zMFQwNToxMjoxNSswMDowMLFV0iEAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102994 Archived-At: 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? As you've discovered, Gnus is pretty actively worked on. Since you're already running pretest builds of emacs why not just go all the way and build the emacs git master yourself? That way you'll get the bleeding edge stuff you want as it comes out. I did it for years, it is not difficult. -- Do they only stand By ignorance, is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith?