Re: Drop tarball releases and go ELPA only

[Tassilo Horn]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

Hi Uwe,

> Can't I just set
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name 
> "~/emacs/site-lisp/packages/src/auctex-hg")  load-path))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> And then a init file with 
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
> (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> As I did before 

Why do you insist on using a more complex recipe than what Arash gave
you:

  (load "~/development/auctex/auctex-autoloads.el" nil t t)

That's pretty much what an ELPA install would do automatically and which
we know works.

> In your other mail you suggest to use
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (add-to-list 'package-archives
>              '("elpa-devel" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/";) t)
> (setq package-archive-priority
>       '(("elpa" . 10)
>         ("elpa-devel" . 5)))
> (setq package-pinned-packages
>       '((auctex . "elpa-devel")))
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But this seems to be something different.

Yeah, that's for installing auctex from the ELPA-devel archive which
also gives you the beleeding edge and you wouldn't need to run from a
checkout.

> Here is a scenario, you or Keita for that matter send me a patch
> against the latest commit in main, as both of you did in the past.
>
> To try out the patch I need to compile the patched main branch and
> restart emacs, I don't see you to do this using elpa as you suggest.
>
> Or do I miss here something?

You could simply apply the path in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-<version>/ and
then do M-x package-recompile RET auctex RET.

Bye,
  Tassilo