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Re: req-package


From: Edward Knyshov
Subject: Re: req-package
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:17:47 +0000

Unfortunately we need to write imperative code sometimes because we need to
increase performance and reduce memory usage.
First version of req-package has been implemented in completely functional
style.
After my configuration grown to use near 150 packages, things gone wrong
and I started to tackle into recursion limits of emacs lisp.
Also performance was not that high as now. What is left for me is to keep
req-package api functional while providing good performance.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 1:05 PM Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 3:08:18 PM UTC+5:30, Edward Knyshov wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:10 PM Rusi  wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 2:21:41 PM UTC+5:30, Les Harris wrote:
> > > > I am just a normal user when it comes to use-package but it has
> > > > completely changed how I manage configuration for emacs.  I've been
> > > > following the recent threads on here keenly.
> > > >
> > > > I just wanted to say that this vision of use-package as a
> foundational
> > > > framework is very exciting from an end-user's standpoint and I look
> > > > forward to seeing what results may come.
> > >
> > > Yes
> > > The one thing that is not coming out in these threads or the docs is
> that
> > > use-package (req-package??¹) is hi-level declarative/functional
> whereas the
> > > builtin methods are low-level imperative.
> > >
> > > The closest that the builtin methods are functional is
> > > (require 'feature)
> > > vs the more imperative
> > > (load "feature")
> > >
> > > However as soon as one wants to go from there to something a bit more
> > > sophisticated eg add-hook, autoload, eval-after-load etc it all becomes
> > > mind-numbingly sequence-sensitive.
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------
> > > ¹ As is stands req-package adds a key functional feature - dependency
> graph
> > > verification. However from what is currently being discussed here it
> looks
> > > to
> > > be getting more imperative.
> > >
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > First thing we need to figure out is does use-package provide flexible
> > enough api to implement req-package as new use-package keyword.
> > Currently it works by calling (use-package ...) forms when corresponding
> > are packages a ready to configure.
> > We need a full control over packages loading flow, because we need to
> > rearrange some stuff to get all this dance work.
>
> Err... I need to change my hat :-)
> As an ordinary programmer, functional is generally better than imperative.
>
> However with implementer hat on I know that the more fancy-ly declarative
> a language is the more complex the internals are going to be.
> After all its a conservation law -- someone somewhere needs to think the
> messy parts.  Just better to do it once-and-for-all and to forget
> thereafter.
> So thanks you guys -- you and John -- for doing the messy work to help
> us keep our inits short, sequence-tolerant logically organized and zippy.
>
> And just to remind, I jumped into these threads because I would like to
> hand
> out to my students, init-fragments that are not so long arcane and messy
> as they
> currently have to be. [Anyways they think I am nuts for using emacs...
> So not too many available degrees of freedom :-)
> ]
>


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