Re: Comments on 21.0 "Somali"

Kevin> Is there a way of declaring the dependencies required by some package Kevin> or must it be trial and error? The package interface can help you with this, although support is rather low-level as of yet. You may start with M-x load-library RET package-get RET ;;; Or evaluate the following line (load-library "package-get") ;;; Which package provides 'gnus? (package-get-package-provider 'gnus) (gnus "1.16") Kevin> Some specifics: ps-print.el seems to be missing. It's not in any ;;; What package provides ps-print? (package-get-package-provider 'ps-print) (os-utils "1.07") Kevin> roadmap file. Likewise term.el seems MIA. And Gnus calls sort-subr (package-get-package-provider 'term) nil Hmmh! Try M-x describe-variable package-get-base I can find `eterm' in the *Hyper Help* buffer, and `terminal'. Ah, yes Gnus requires the following packages: (package-get-info-version-prop package-get-base 'gnus nil 'requires) (gnus w3 mh-e mailcrypt rmail mail-lib xemacs-base) The good news is: (package-get-all 'gnus nil) will get you the latest version of gnus and ALL required packages. Cool, eh? Kevin> which is not found. The jka-compr package also seems to be missing. (package-get-package-provider 'jka-compr) (os-utils "1.07") Kevin> I suspect that I'll eventually find all of them, but there needs to be Kevin> a better way of helping the user through this! Kevin> On the other hand, tpu-edt seems happy in 21.0 once you get all of the (package-get-package-provider 'tpu-edt) nil *Hyper Help* for `package-get-base' reveals the package you look for is `tpu'. (package-get-package-provider 'tpu) (tpu "1.04") Kevin> packages it calls. I have only a single bug to track down so far. Beats UPS (no, not the power supply), doesn't it? HTH, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Straße 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MÜNCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com