bug#61937: closed (29.0.60; [FR] use-package :ensure to allow vc sources)

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regarding 29.0.60; [FR] use-package :ensure to allow vc sources
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> 29.0.60; [FR] use-package :ensure to allow vc sources
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> Fri, 03 Mar 2023 22:57:36 +0800
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> mu4e 1.8.14; emacs 29.0.60
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> I have been using straight.el [1] before `use-package' was taken into
> emacs.git, as I needed to use some packages not from any elpa source but
> from vc sources.  I recently noticed the function `package-vc-install'
> has been introduced into 29, and would like to have `use-package' use it
> in its :ensure form.
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> An analogous version from straight.el has already been made available,
> which looks like the following:
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>     (use-package foo
>       :straight (foo :repo "https://path.to/foo.el"; :type git))
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> My hope is to extend :ensure form so that a similar specification can be
> supplied to install packages directly from vc sources.
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> [1]: https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el
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> Best,
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> RY
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> Re: bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package
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> Tue, 16 May 2023 19:30:48 +0000
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> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
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> > Tony Zorman <soliditsallgood@mailbox.org> writes:
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> >> On Sat, May 06 2023 18:50, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> >>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>>>                                       I understand that in most cases
> >>>> users will want to install the latest, 
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> >>> I don't know if that is the case.  I might be wrong that the revision of
> >>> the latest release is a good default?  Tony, do you think we should add
> >>> a user-option to regulate this behaviour.
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> >> It's certainly my default to install the latest commit of a package
> >> instead of the latest release. I don't know how general this desire is
> >> among other people, but an option for controlling the specific behaviour
> >> sounds great in either case.
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> > OK, so it might make sense to address this at a later point with a
> > another patch.
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> > For now, what issues remain to be resolved before these patches can be
> > applied?
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> Reviewing the thread, I think everything was ready (aside from a few
> things that I promised to take care of), so I've pushed the change to
> master.  Thank you for your contribution!
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