description | Elisp installer for emacs |
owner | tehom@panix.com |
last change | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:24:59 +0000 (11 18:24 -0500) |
URL | git://repo.or.cz/elinstall.git |
| https://repo.or.cz/elinstall.git |
push URL | ssh://repo.or.cz/elinstall.git |
| https://repo.or.cz/elinstall.git (learn more) |
bundle info | elinstall.git downloadable bundles |
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There are other package installers and there is "autoload.el", bundled
with emacs. Why use elinstall? Because:
* It works with my-site-start (which I highly recommend)
* It supports slash-style paths, like
: (require 'emtest/testhelp/tagnames)
* Unlike autoload.el, it can also set up load-path and
Info-default-directory-list (that's like load-path for info files)
* Unlike some other installers, it works with canonical
loaddefs.el-style autoload files.
* Unlike other installers, what you install doesn't have to be
pre-packaged, and there are no restrictions on what means you can
use to get the elisp files - elinstall doesn't care, it obeys the
motto "do one thing well".
But it also works well for packages.
* Because internally it works in articulated stages, it's easier to
hack and extend than autoload.el