Re: [PATCH 0/4] Make Emacs find packages in "~/.guix-profile".

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2016-01-14 16:37 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-01-13 16:54 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-01-10 23:21 +0300) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So this is a full patchset to "teach" Emacs how to find emacs packages
>>>>>> installed with Guix.  See conversation at
>>>>>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00164.html>.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [PATCH 1/4] emacs: Make "guix-emacs.el" independent.
>>>>>> [PATCH 2/4] emacs: Move loading packages to "guix-emacs.el".
>>>>>> [PATCH 3/4] gnu: emacs: Find packages in "~/.guix-profile".
>>>>>> [PATCH 4/4] doc: Describe how Emacs packages are found.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is an important nuance: the 3rd patch MUST NOT be committed along
>>>>>> with the first 2 patches, because it will make our Emacs package use an
>>>>>> old source of 'guix' which does not contain the required changes.  So I
>>>>>> think we should:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Push the patches 1 and 2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Wait for the next update of the 'guix-devel' snapshot (last time it
>>>>>>    was updated in November¹, so it will probably happen soon).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. And finally push the patches 3 and 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK.  Note that we can update ‘guix-devel’ whenever we want.  So if you
>>>>> take care of pushing things, feel free to do it yourself!
>>>>
>>>> Great, but I see that you updated guix-devel snapshot several days ago.
>>>> Would it be OK to update it again so soon?
>>>
>>> Sure.
>>
>> Or maybe would it be better to update ‘guix-devel’ after core-updates
>> will be merged (since it is going to be really soon)?
>
> Either way is fine.
>
> (Note that it takes several days to build everything, not counting
> things we might need to fix in the middle.)

I've updated guix-devel and pushed the patch for Emacs to find packages
in ~/.guix-profile.

-- 
Alex