Re: package site information more dynamically updateable

Ben Wing wrote: Just as a side note: I have code that adds http and ssh transport support to package installation. It's based on package*.el from 21.14-CVS and on functionality from package-transport.el by Steve that got posted here many months ago. The code is upwards compatible to existing descriptions, to ensure that customized package-get-download-sites continues to work. It adds an optional fourth attribute to the download site description, the protocol that can be used to access the given site and directory. (Actually, one should and could use URLs as site specifiers, IMO. But that can be a later addition.) Btw, the code does _not_ use the concept of Steve's package-transport.el that had a global variable that denotes the transport protocol. IMNSHO the transport protocol is associated with the site and is not a user preference. One could have a user preference that filters out all download sites which don't support the respective transport protocol, but that hasn't been implemented yet. I haven't posted the code yet to xemacs-patches because it doesn't support http proxies yet, doesn't support http ports other than 80, there is a problem with overwrite semantics of copy-file, and I have to make more tests. Cleanup (comments) is needed, too. If somebody wants to see that 80%-ready code nevertheless, I can make it available, of course. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany