Re: Integrating package.el

[Phil Hagelberg]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:40:31 -0800 Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> PH> The attached file implements the server-side maintenance, albeit in a
> PH> rough manner. It's limited to single-file packages kept in git
> PH> repositories, simply because that's what I'm personally familiar with,
> PH> though I don't think supporting other DVCSes would be tricky at all.
>
> PH> I welcome comments on this. Once the server-side maintenance tool is
> PH> ready, I want to add support for multiple sources to the client-side
> PH> package.el, and once that's done supporting multiple install locations
> PH> on disk (as Tom has explained) would be the next step.
>
> Technically it seems fine.  I wouldn't mind working with it.  The git
> calls could perhaps be abstracted to the VC equivalents, though I don't
> know the Emacs VC well at all.

Unfortunately the abstracted VC functionality doesn't currently support
creating new checkouts/cloning, which is why I didn't investigate that
much further. (Plus I know of 20+ elisp libs in git and only 1 or 2 in
bzr.) It may not be a common enough operation to justify adding to VC,
or maybe it's a long-standing TODO that nobody's tackled yet.

-Phil