Re: [ELPA] New Package: phpinspect.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Hugo Thunnissen <devel@hugot.nl> writes:

> On 8/15/23 22:28, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>>
>> I am not familiar with Cask, what does this provide over a simple
>> Makefile?
>
>
> It locally installs the package's dependencies and starts emacs with a
> clean profile that only has those dependencies available. It doesn't
> do much, but it's easy to use and it seems to help prevent "it works
> with my setup" scenarios. I only started using it recently though so
> I'm not very familiar with it, nor am I very skilled with make for
> that matter ;)
>
> What would a simple Makefile for a typical elisp package look like? Is
> it common practice to create clean environments like cask does?

This article goes into it https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/01/22/,
though I understand now that it doesn't do the same thing (or at least
you would have to manually implement something like creating a clean
environment or installing dependencies).