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Re: Interoperation between package managers
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Interoperation between package managers |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:34:50 -0400 |
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> Perhaps I should not have said the package.el format is fundamentally
> incompatible with source-based package managers. What I should have
> said is that source-based package managers would gain little by being
> compatible with the package.el format.
I don't know what you mean by "the package.el format". AFAIK there are
2 "formats": one on the web-server and one in ~/.emacs.d/elpa. I agree
that the web-server one wouldn't make much sense for "source-based"
package managers, but the installed-format doesn't seem incompatible
at all.
> In particular, packages that are installed via package.el cannot be
> version-controlled, since the package.el format dictates a flat
> collection of *.el (and other) files, with no version-control
> information attached other than a version number.
Not sure. For example, the way I use elpa.git with package.el is:
git clone .../elpa.git
cd elpa
make
and then add that directory to package-directory-list.
That lets me use packages directly from the local Git repository (which
I find important in order for `C-h f` and such to directly jump to
the real source files that I can edit, with VCS metadata).
> As a corollary, it is impossible to use the package.el format to make
> local modifications to a package in a controlled way, or to contribute
> changes upstream using package.el.
I don't see that.
Stefan
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), (continued)
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/10
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/10
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/10
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/10
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Mark Oteiza, 2017/08/10
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/11
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Nick Helm, 2017/08/10
- Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize), Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/11
- Interoperation between package managers (was: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize)), Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/09
- Re: Interoperation between package managers (was: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize)), Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/09
- Re: Interoperation between package managers,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/10
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/11
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/12
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/08/12
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/13
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/13
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/13
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/13
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Radon Rosborough, 2017/08/13
- Re: Interoperation between package managers, Stefan Monnier, 2017/08/14