Hi, sorry for the delay in response. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Len Trigg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am on ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which currently only has emacs 24.3 available. > AFAIK there is no PPA that contains builds of emacs releases so it's hard > for regular folks to to get 24.4 (and the soon to be released 24.5). I see > you guys have emacs daily snapshots, so was wondering if you would be able > to add each official release as it came out?
This is a bit tricky at the moment; those daily builds are produced by launchpad recipes, which fire automatically every time lp:emacs updates. This used to work fine when emacs was using bzr for development, but now emacs has switched to git, and the importer that imports emacs git into lp:emacs bzr is really badly broken, so the builds don't happen anywhere near as often as they should (and even when they do trigger they often just fail to build, it's a really big mess). There's some rumours going around that launchpad will adopt git support, and perhaps at that time it will be possible to get this stuff all working again. In the mean time, emacs is actually surprisingly easy to compile yourself if you really need it; just './configure && make && sudo make install' and you're on your way. It's an option if you're really hurting for a newer version of emacs on 14.04. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
