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Re: CVS is the `released version'
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David Kastrup |
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Re: CVS is the `released version' |
Date: |
Mon, 14 May 2007 08:41:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> package.el is attached to a web site, ELPA, where package updates
> are uploaded. The idea here is twofold.
The central repository (and the necessary policies for maintaining it,
and the requirement to find intermediaries) is what I find works
absolutely worst with the XEmacs package system. It is the main
culprit for XEmacs distributing outdated packages.
Once one has a central repository, there is no significant advantage
over not having packages but instead putting everything inside of
Emacs.
> First, many packages are released between Emacs releases; package.el
> makes it simple to update to these releases and use them. Second,
> not every useful Emacs Lisp package out there is going to be
> included in Emacs. We've seen over the years that having a separate
> repository is in fact very useful to Emacs users.
Who saw that?
> Another thing package.el provides is simple installation. Packages
> are downloaded (including their dependencies, if any) and installed
> for you, autoloads are extracted, the package is byte-compiled, and
> when Emacs starts up,the packages are "activated" (meaning the
> autoloads are evalled). Users don't have to modify their .emacs for
> updates to load-path, the Info path, or a list of autoloads.
They don't have for packages that are included in Emacs, anyway.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: CVS is the `released version', (continued)
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Tom Tromey, 2007/05/13
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Richard Stallman, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Tom Tromey, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Ryan Yeske, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Mike Mattie, 2007/05/15
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Tom Tromey, 2007/05/13
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', David Kastrup, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Tom Tromey, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Stefan Monnier, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version',
David Kastrup <=
- Re: CVS is the `released version', joakim, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Tom Tromey, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Ryan Yeske, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Eli Zaretskii, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Tom Tromey, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Ryan Yeske, 2007/05/14
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Stefan Monnier, 2007/05/17
- Re: CVS is the `released version', David Kastrup, 2007/05/17
- Re: CVS is the `released version', Stefan Monnier, 2007/05/17
- Re: CVS is the `released version', thorne, 2007/05/15