Re: how to use contrib packages through ELPA (specifically org-export)

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> Jambunathan K writes:
>> Mainline version 
>>
>> 1. Doesn't update `archive-contents' which is necessary in order to
>>    browse packages in the repo with `list-packages'.  My private version
>>    does it with `package-upload-file'.
>
> That's the right place to do it, so that'll be implemented with the
> upload.
>
>> 2. Doesn't create README file.
>
> Can't do either, since the source for the new README isn't included in
> Git.  I do package the README, though.
>
>> 3. Packs the whole repo.  My private version packs just the "original"
>>    org-odt.el and style files.
>
> Wait, are we talking about the same ELPA Org package?  I don't pack the
> whole repo either, just lisp/, etc/styles, doc and a few files from
> toplevel.

If I am not mistaken, you are talking about release tar and not the ELPA
tar.  They are not the same.

Run rgrep like so.
    (rgrep "pkg" "*.mk" "~/src/org-mode/" nil)

and I see no references to 'org-pkg.el'.  (Note the `-pkg.el')

Look at following info node in Emacs-24+
    (info "(elisp) Multi-file Packages")

specifically this paragraph:
,----
|    For example, if we distribute version 1.3 of the superfrobnicator
| as a multi-file package, the tar file would be
| `superfrobnicator-1.3.tar'.  Its contents would extract into the
| directory `superfrobnicator-1.3', and one of these would be the file
| `superfrobnicator-pkg.el'.
`----

You can also look at 
    http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/

to understand how things are packaged.

>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

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