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Re: Multi-language package for ELPA


From: Tim Visher
Subject: Re: Multi-language package for ELPA
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:24:40 -0400

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Thomas Järvstrand
<tjarvstrand@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm developing a package of Erlang development tools for Emacs that I would
> like to make available through ELPA (https://github.com/tjarvstrand/edts).
>
> The problem is that a lot of the features require one or more Erlang nodes
> with custom code to be running in the background. This Erlang code
> obviously has to be compiled as part of the package installation. Is there
> any way to accomplish that?
>
> If possible it would probably also be nice to be able to set as
> prerequisite that an Erlang distribution is installed on the system
> (asserting that there is an erl or erlc on the exec-path should enough).

I can't be of much help here but I would point you to nrepl.el/nrepl,
SLIME, etc. as examples of this.

The emacs facing portions all know how to communicate with the server
and will simply fail if the server is not there (some in more gracious
ways than others).

At that point ensuring both are there becomes an issue of
documentation rather than a way to package your code directly in your
package.

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Timmy V.

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