Uwe Brauer via Discussion list for AUCTeX developers <[email protected]>
writes:
>> - There's also a completely different alternative: make the
>> externals/elpa the new "main" branch and drop master and tarball
>> releases altogether. Is there still a justification for having
>> them? I mean, we dropped XEmacs support anyway and it should be
>> easy enough for distros to just use the ELPA tarballs as basis for
>> their distro packages.
>
> Just to be sure.
> For any of these two proposals:
>
> It would be still possible to pull (fetch) and compile auctex
> independently of emacs?
Yes, although I'd recommend to use the ELPA-devel package which would
automatically be built for every new commit so that you don't have to
hassle with pulling and building yourself.
For example, I use some packages from the ELPA devel archive like so:
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(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("gnu-devel" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/";) t)
(setopt package-archive-priorities
'(("gnu" . 10)
("nongnu" . 10)
("melpa" . 10)
;; Lower priority because I want to explicitly define for a single
;; package that this archive is to be used by pinning it there.
("gnu-devel" . 0)))
(use-package ef-themes
:ensure t
;; Use the bleeding-edge package from gnu-devel instead of the
;; released version from the gnu ELPA archive.
:pin gnu-devel
...)
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Bye,
Tassilo
