Re: Howto run guix.el correctly?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-27 01:41 +0300) wrote:

[...]

>>> The problem is that I don't understand what these %standard-emacs-phases
>>> should be,
>>
>> (define %standard-emacs-phases
>>   (alist-cons-after
>>    'install 'post-install
>>    (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>>      (install-autoloads (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
>>    %standard-phases))
>
> Sorry, I didn't get how it would work.  I realized that I don't
> understand how there could be a generalized ‘install-autoloads’
> procedure as it should do different things for different packages.

Arf, yes, that’s a good point.  Perhaps I just overlooked that.

>>> that's why I wanted to do it step-by-step.  I don't see general
>>> patterns right now.  Some packages would require just making a link as
>>> with geiser, other packages require generating autoloads and maybe
>>> some others require additional steps.  What about making
>>> "wip-emacs-packages" branch and to put the appropriate changes there
>>> for now?
>>
>> Sure!
>
> Thanks, I have created "wip-emacs-packages" branch: the elisp code is
> ready, so now I'm going to walk through existing emacs packages in order
> to add “…-autoloads.el” to each one.

I just browsed it, and it looks good so far.

I was just thinking: if we want to take over the Emacs world, we need an
ELPA importer for ‘guix import’.  (In case you were wondering what to do
next.  ;-))

Thanks,
Ludo’.