Re: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 09:38AM +03, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 08:53AM +03, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>>> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>>>> On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 08:35PM +02, John Darrington wrote:
>>>>> Sure.  But from a user's perspective I don't see the advantage in that.  
>>>>> I mean what is the difference between typing "apt-get install pspp-mode" 
>>>>> and "M-x package-install 'pspp-mode" ?
>>>>
>>>> From the perspective of those of us working on packaging Emacs addons in 
>>>> Debian, significant advantages are
>>>>
>>>> 1) the way addons work doesn't change within a Debian stable release, just 
>>>> like Emacs itself doesn't change within a Debian stable release
>>>>
>>>> 2) addons get installed using Debian's mechanisms for a secure software 
>>>> supply chain, rather than relying on https alone.
>>>
>>> 3) they are automatically available to  #!/usr/bin/emacs --script  scripts; 
>>> and pollute stderr at every run:
>
>> This only happens with old style addons.  Once we have finished migrating 
>> all addons in the archive to our newer tooling you won't see this.
>
> The first part of the advantage will be still valid, though, right?  That is, 
> they are prepended to ‘load-path’ even with -q / --batch / --script, while 
> package.el-managed packages do not.

Actually, they are added to package-directory-alist and then
package-initialize adds them to the load-path.

-- 
Sean Whitton