From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:13:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87o9jku2gt.fsf@gmail.com> References: <871sh1pid1.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1exmBL-0006gQ-47 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:13:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1exmBJ-0001kw-WA for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:13:59 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::231]:44109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1exmBJ-0001kU-PU for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:13:57 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x231.google.com with SMTP id m68so6557414pfm.11 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:13:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <871sh1pid1.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleg Pykhalov's message of "Sat, 03 Mar 2018 13:24:10 +0300") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Oleg Pykhalov Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oleg Pykhalov writes: > Hello Jorge, > > "Jorge" writes: > >> I would prefer to get Emacs 26 from Guix, which would be more >> automatic and would come configured to work with Guix-installed Emacs >> packages. > > Guix package collection provides only stable package releases for the > most part. There is no reason why we cannot also provide cutting-edge versions. We do this already for some packages. For example, see any of the following packages: guix package --search=3D. | recsel -e 'name ~ "-(git|next|dev|devel|cvs|s= vn)$"' Generally, it seems the trend is that we provide such development versions as separate packages. =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIyBAEBCAAdFiEEy/WXVcvn5+/vGD+x3UCaFdgiRp0FAlqvOQIACgkQ3UCaFdgi Rp0CDw/3cdTupr3DG91npMhTKfMp1Cnb6qQ8ITAj/Vx9ck7JCnmsD153kM24cTZi X8ivmmHZhF6t86H7FLcfN2Y1ACUARnvN1Xejvy6JUO3Ccg7BWlH24fEPPuoOC46B 8Gs7zEwY2S00OfG1BzadFBEPaWMjd7YqTOUa1j/7x1jb8Gt+V3VhKtk++0LBCM/t OJA7/2ynHl5x0Q3Xp6VFAI5mJzTSlITde9XY//d8A+hkvbOXhJXcKlVDtBx6/4OF 2msg/gp2ZizbwcOftQizEZMceFmoZsGOvVgoRfnBwAlFkG9obUdSbPlE/q0XvSIj BPiBtP0Ko4O9pP5HrNjOicNmefZrTl3wipRYs59X9E/YgOBx/Ry1LzsGfNXTxw4Z ILTKjyNa3mt11BIY8GqUnV86PhyL1Jtqlshk3KxgZKgeKlwWdgVI4ArAD1takPZu S9uBqheGWAJ/PrBNQT+25jezSy/EfiXzhJfv6AvO14fmipJNazuE/De6l5JAGYeS ZdqN0Sy20e1R7Eq7lO6DUwecjXE+PwdRgU7kxAcqN3acwFFudKDfZWJ5JgPUD2Uf +L0YsmTCf57WUZt4cIeEbOPa03Rn62wONh1yCIJ5U8Hi3wn9Ci84m2xG3i+Pzvo/ 4q9436UJAW4nuRIJAXhC91A+edZSFEReSI322wsWziSXTUiRww== =tWkT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--