Re: fresh macosx install

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:53:52 -0800,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> At Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:06:49 -0500,
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > > i am a wl user.  i have a fresh macosx machine.  what is the most
> > > straightforward way to do a clean machine install of wl, including APEL,
> > > FLIM, and SEMI?
> > 
> > 1. install el-get from https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
> > 2. put 'apel, 'flim, 'semi, and 'wanderlust in your el-get-sources
> > 3. Enjoy
> 
> Wow, I didn’t know about el-get. Looks cool.
> 
> For what it’s worth, I just finished off the WL support in my own
> emacs packaging systems. Get started with the README file:
> 
>   http://launchpad.net/pases/trunk/0.2/+download/README

Wow, I didn’t know about pases. Looks cool.
Maybe just another system for el-get to assimilate.  But I bet your
code is better than el-get's :-)

> The (apel, flim, semi, wl) packages are available at:
> 
>   http://e6h.org/pases/
> 
> I have tested them on emacs 23 (Ubuntu), and Aquamacs 1.9 (Mac OS X).
> If anybody wishes to test on other platforms (Maemo, etc) I would
> appreciate it!
> 
> pases is pure emacs (though it requires an “unzip” binary), so it can
> install WL on platforms lacking make. It handles compilation and
> autoloads. The project page is here:

el-get recipes can also be written to avoid "make," and those for apel,
flim, semi, and wanderlust do just that.

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Dave Abrahams
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