Re: irchat & other package updates

Thursday, 10 December 1998

        Pekka Marjola <pema(a)iki.fi&gt; writes:

...
 (BTW, if there are problems with idea.el, irchat does not require it
 and could be distributed without it - just add a note pointing
 original site.) 
I think that was the problem yes.

...

 I finally started using package tools. Getting updated package list
 required some digging, since package-ui seems not have any direct
 commands for that. (BTW, latest package list lists irchat - with
 zenirc description.) 
Could you please describe "digging"? I have a patch submitted to XEmacs
patches that automatically offers to update the list-packages list. It 
is not in yet however.

...
 I have all package tarballs copied to local directory. Adding
 directory was quite simple, though I don't it's a good idea to delete
 local tarballs by default. 
Are you sure it is doing that? How did you add the local directory, by 
adding the dir to package-get-remote? Then package-get should not
delete them. 

...
 I had old versions of packages installed with symlinks (installit
Perl 
 tool), and tried to upgrade on top of those. 
If these were 'pre MANIFEST' packages then this would happen I think.
With modern packages it just deletes all files from pkginfo/MANIFEST.name

...
 package-ui is quite useful, but I'd like it to make distinction
 between multiple install dirs. Say, if I want to install some packages 
 to ~/.xemacs, some to xemacs-21.0/lib/xemacs-packages and some to
 xemacs/lib/xemacs-packages, I'd like to know which versions are
 installed where and to easily change targets. 
Package-ui is not up to this right now. Something for after 21.0

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