Re: emacs-29 44ebd9cbd56 2/2: Eglot: explain how to update Eglot in manual (bug#62720)

[Dmitry]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, at 1:13 PM, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, at 9:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:52:48 +0300

>> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com

>> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>

>> > 

>> > But that's the thing: upgrading to a recent version of Eglot is not only 

>> > for the more advanced user. Those can easily go the 'M-x list-packages 

>> > C-s eglot i x' route.

>> > 

>> > It is those who do the minimum customization and/or are just introduced 

>> > to Emacs, can miss out with more likelihood the longer the steps to 

>> > upgrade Eglot are going to be.

>> 

>> At the risk of sounding like a broken record: introducing a new

>> command for upgrading Eglot has the same problem as the original one:

>> users of Emacs 29 will need to use a different procedure for upgrading

>> Eglot than they used before.

> But users of Emacs 28- would be able to use it too. So at least the docs could list just one method.

But they don't need it, because package-install does the right thing to

begin with?

By default, package-install indeed "does the tight thing". But it doesn't upgrade the already-installed package.