bug#26046: ESS installed without autoloads

bug#26046: ESS installed without autoloads

[Ricardo Wurmus]

The “emacs-ess” package does not behave like all other Emacs packages.
Its files are installed to “$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess” (not
“guix.d”) and there are no autoloads.

I don’t know how to get ESS to work like this.  Should the package be
changed such that it installs autoload files like all other packages?

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bug#26046: ESS installed without autoloads

[Alex Kost]

Ricardo Wurmus (2017-03-10 10:03 +0100) wrote:

> The “emacs-ess” package does not behave like all other Emacs packages.
> Its files are installed to “$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess” (not
> “guix.d”) and there are no autoloads.
>
> I don’t know how to get ESS to work like this.  Should the package be
> changed such that it installs autoload files like all other packages?

Yeah, I think its elisp files should be put either directly into
"site-lisp" (as it is done by 'magit') or into "site-lisp/guix.d/..."
(as it is done by 'let-alist', for example).

As for the "...-autoloads.el" file, it can be created with
'emacs-generate-autoloads' procedure (see 'emacs-wget' or 'git-modes'
for examples).

Note: I've not looked at 'emacs-ess', so it was a theoretical comment :-)

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Alex

bug#26046: ESS installed without autoload

[zimoun]

Dear,

Digging in the bug tracker, I found this bug [1] about ESS saying that
it does not behave like all other Emacs packages; installing in
'$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess' instead of "guix.d".

Well, all other packages do install in '$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/'
as the manual says [2].  Because the Emacs packages location changes
recently, AFAIU.

Does it make sense to close it now?

Cheers,
simon

[1] http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/26046
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Emacs-Packages

bug#26046: ESS installed without autoload

[Ricardo Wurmus]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Digging in the bug tracker, I found this bug [1] about ESS saying that
> it does not behave like all other Emacs packages; installing in
> '$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess' instead of "guix.d".
>
> Well, all other packages do install in '$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/'
> as the manual says [2].  Because the Emacs packages location changes
> recently, AFAIU.
>
> Does it make sense to close it now?

Yes, I think this is no longer a problem now that we no longer use
“guix.d”.

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Ricardo