Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests!

[Dmitry Gutov]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> Daniel> The changes touch most of the code, but the overall structure of the
> Daniel> code has not changed significantly. Some parts of the code which were
> Daniel> questionable in the first place (such as using `tar-mode' to extract 
> tar
> Daniel> archives) have been replaced with simpler alternatives. In the case of
> Daniel> tar, the file is simply downloaded to a temporary directory and
> Daniel> extracted using "tar xaf foo-1.2.3.tar".
>
> This sounds worse to me, since it means that now package installation
> has an external dependency.  Previously this was not the case --
> intentionally.

Indeed, if that means that it won't work on vanilla Windows
installations, then this decision should be reversed.

The change looks good otherwise, I especially like the presence of tests.