Re: [PATCH 0/4] Make Emacs find packages in "~/.guix-profile".

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2016-01-13 16:54 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-01-10 23:21 +0300) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> So this is a full patchset to "teach" Emacs how to find emacs packages
>>>>> installed with Guix.  See conversation at
>>>>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00164.html>.
>>>>>
>>>>> [PATCH 1/4] emacs: Make "guix-emacs.el" independent.
>>>>> [PATCH 2/4] emacs: Move loading packages to "guix-emacs.el".
>>>>> [PATCH 3/4] gnu: emacs: Find packages in "~/.guix-profile".
>>>>> [PATCH 4/4] doc: Describe how Emacs packages are found.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is an important nuance: the 3rd patch MUST NOT be committed along
>>>>> with the first 2 patches, because it will make our Emacs package use an
>>>>> old source of 'guix' which does not contain the required changes.  So I
>>>>> think we should:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Push the patches 1 and 2.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Wait for the next update of the 'guix-devel' snapshot (last time it
>>>>>    was updated in November¹, so it will probably happen soon).
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. And finally push the patches 3 and 4.
>>>>
>>>> OK.  Note that we can update ‘guix-devel’ whenever we want.  So if you
>>>> take care of pushing things, feel free to do it yourself!
>>>
>>> Great, but I see that you updated guix-devel snapshot several days ago.
>>> Would it be OK to update it again so soon?
>>
>> Sure.
>
> Or maybe would it be better to update ‘guix-devel’ after core-updates
> will be merged (since it is going to be really soon)?

Either way is fine.

(Note that it takes several days to build everything, not counting
things we might need to fix in the middle.)

Ludo’.