Re: elpa package loading problem?

[Xah Lee]

On Jun 4, 1:58 am, José A. Romero L. <escherdra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu sobota, 2 czerwca 2012 18:44:29 UTC+2 użytkownik Xah Lee napisał:
>
> > does anyone have problems with emacs package system?
>
> > recently, installed several packages with it: {“rainbow-mode”,
> > “bookmark+”, “smex”, “expand-region”}.
> (...)
> > apps key, i get: “Symbol's function definition is void: smex”. If i
> (...)
> > Any insight on this?
>
> AFAIK, ELPA relies heavily on correctly declared autoload cookies,
> especially if you really want to avoid loading whole packages at
> startup. From my own experience adapting SC to ELPA I know this is
> not easy to get right from the beginning -- you, as a user, may end
> needing to add the missing autoloads to the xxx-autoloads.el file
> automatically generated by ELPA (this sucks big time, because your
> added code is ditched away with every upgrade of the package). ELPA
> works wonderfully well, but only if the authors of the packages you
> happen to use did make that extra effort to get things right from the
> start.
>
> > for emacs 24, is this the way things are?
>
> Yep, that's just the way it is. I'm afraid you'll have to submit a
> few bug reports before things start working properly for you.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> José A. Romero L.
> escherdragon at gmail
> "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
> (Quarry worker's creed)


Thanks a lot Jose. Very informative.

 Xah