Re: Best practice for tracking current release?

[Ben Hyde]

On 14 Sep 2015, at 10:59, Michael Albinus wrote:

> "Ben Hyde" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> > Meanwhile, if el-get is setup you can ask it to do the classic song
> > and dance.
> >
> >   M-x el-get-install
> >        and ask for tramp.
> >
> > You may want to edit tramp’s el-get recipe 
> > (el-get/recipes/tramp.rcp)
> > to get a
> > stable release, if so add:
> >
> >  :branch “V-2-2-12”
>
> I don't use el-get. I've just installed it from melpa. If I apply
> el-get-install, it doesn't accept tramp, likely due to a missing
> recipe. I don't see a description how to get recipes; el-get seems to 
> be
> under-documented at all.
>
> Or I miss something obvious.
>
> > - ben
>
> Best regards, Michael.

I can reply quickly or carefully… so I’ll take quickly.

My init file has this form in it to set up el-get

(cond
 ((file-exists-p (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/el-get"))
  (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name 
"~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get"))
  (require 'el-get))
 (t
  (url-retrieve
   
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el";
   (lambda (s)
     (goto-char (point-max))
     (eval-print-last-sexp)))))

which doesn’t look right to me … but I took the quick choice.

There is a comment in that file about how the install from melpa 
didn’t work for me because
the recipe I wanted (the one for pymacs) wasn’t included.

For me I didn’t install el-get until I encountered something essoteric 
that I was struggling with installing,
that might have been pymacs … which I still haven’t got working to 
my satisfaction.

 - ben