Am 12.03.2013 02:25, schrieb Jonas Bernoulli:
python-mode is mirrored on the Emacsmirror, which is a large up-to-date
collection of Emacs packages.
As the maintainer of the mirror I am trying to resolve feature conflicts
that result from one package bundling libraries from another package. I
suspect in most cases these libraries were included so that users would
not have to find, download and install each dependency manually.
Unfortunately bundling also has negative side-effects: if the bundled
libraries are also installed separately, then it is undefined which
version actually gets loaded when the respective feature is required.
Initially that isn't a big problem but in many cases upstream changes
are not included or only after a long delay. This can be very confusing
for users who are not aware that some of the installed packages bundle
libraries which are also installed separately. In other cases bugs are
fixed in the bundled versions but the fixes are never submitted to
upstream.
Also now that Emacs contains the package.el package manager there is a
better way to not require users to manually deal with dependencies: add
the package (and when that hasn't been done yet the dependencies) to the
Melpa package repository. If make is required to install your make you
might want to add it to the el-get (another popular package manager)
package repository instead.
Alternatively if you want to keep bundling these libraries please move
them to a directory only containing bundled libraries and add the file
".nosearch" to that directory. You can then load the library using
something like this:
,----
| (or (require 'bundled nil t)
| (let ((load-path
| (cons (expand-file-name "fallback-libs"
| (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)
| load-path))))
| (require 'bundled)))
`----
Of course if your version differs from the upstream version this might
not be enough in which case you should make an effort to get your
changes merged upstream.
python-mode bundles at least the following libraries:
- autopair
- pymacs
- python (?)
Best regards,
Jonas
The matter is recognised, next commit will remove smart-operator.
BTW pymacs should not be bundled with python-mode.el any more.
It's still part of the components-branch, which is used by people without
`make' on their machine.
This should not interfere here.
'python is not delivered any more.
Thanks for the report,
Andreas
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