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Elpaca and Setup.el #31
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@danielclucas feel free to. But keep in mind that Elpaca is designed for different workflow, so I had to patch/workaround some things. I still find it more pleasant and straightforward (no puns intended), even though there are some quirks.
What is
Worth mentioning that elpaca is a package manager and not 'package declaration' (e.g. configuration) tool. BTW, worth mentioning that I would gladly use |
Elpaca seems more straightforward and less complex by comparison to straight, so that appeals to me. Its author is also an active maintainer of straight, so I believe it was designed with some of the problems of straight in mind. Here's the link to the wiki article on Maybe as a newcomer I just like tools that I can read and sort of understand 😅 |
Thanks for the link. Indeed, it looks like they solve pretty much the same problem and it's just a matter of preferences/taste. I guess the main difference is that
Aye, I totally understand that. Though I wonder, what makes |
I will indeed let you know once I have some experience with it!
Ah, well using |
Hi, I just recently tried to migrate over to
Once this has been done, subsequent attempts at
and never complete. Here's a link to my config: https://github.com/Cloudcolour/flux-emacs. I've probably made some silly error, but I can't seem to figure where I've gone wrong at the moment. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look! |
I was able to resolve the issues I was having with a deep dive into how Eldev and Elpaca work. I hope my request for help wasn't too much of an annoyance! Though I do have one lingering question, which is the need for
Can you provide an example of what sort of script you mean, or of another flow that would require blocking? I don't think I need to use such a function currently, but I would like to understand what problem that solves. Thanks again for all of your resources and code. |
@Cloudcolour apologies for silence. Overly busy and crazy days. Will try to answer this week :) |
I noticed that you migrated from
straight.el
toelpaca
. I have been contemplating trying elpaca for a while, so I will probably use your usage as a guide, so thank you for that! I was wondering if you have any thoughts on using setup.el in place of use-package? It looks like you've opted to just useelpaca-use-package
instead. Do you have any thoughts on elpaca's built-in functionality vs. setup.el?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: