Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> A more radical suggestion: package system.  This is what a package
> system is for, preventing propagation of local breakage into global
> lossage.  D'oh.
>
> I admit, I'm quite shocked that Alan and Eric didn't know about the
> "update -d" flag, and rather surprised that this issue has not come up
> in the same way for XEmacs, since our package tree is always in this
> kind of flux.

I actually would not have known/remembered either, but I used to do the
updates pretty much exclusively through PCL-CVS, so I don't need to
know.  Nowadays I usually employ git.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum