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%% MELPA
*MELPA* or *Milkypostman's ELPA* or *Milkypostman's Experimental Lisp Package Repository* if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
> a repository for development versions of Emacs packages (hot from the repo).
**Last Updated:** <%= Time.now.strftime("%Y.%m.%d %H:%M") %>
## Current List of Packages being Generated Nightly
<%=
def parse str
# credit to: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3128406/154508
tokens = str.scan(/#{Regexp.escape("(")}|#{Regexp.escape(")")}|[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+/)
stack = [[]]
tokens.each do |tok|
case tok
when "("
stack << []
when ")"
stack[-2] << stack.pop
else
stack[-1] << tok
end
end
return stack[-1][-1]
end
parse(File.open("../packages/archive-contents").read)[1..-1].map{ |x|
"* #{x[0]}-#{x[1]} :: #{x[3..-2].join(" ")}"
}.join("\n")
%>
## Installing
To add the repository put this before the call to `package-initialize`
in your `init.el` file.
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
Please read about [known issues](#known-issues) below before
attempting to install multiple packages at once.
## Known Issues
Due to the way the HTTP routing works on my provider, the HTTP/1.1
connection will time out for long package installs -- where the
package is large and takes a while to compile -- like *magit* or *evil*.
(setq url-http-attempt-keepalives nil)
This makes things a tad more slow but means that the install completes
correctly. Otherwise the connection times out and the install goes haywire.
## Updating Packages
`package.el` now includes a mechanism to upgrade packages. After running `package-list-pacages`, type *u* (mark Upgradable packages) and then *x* (eXecute the installs and deletions). When it's done installing all the packages it will ask if you want to delete the obsolete packages and so you can hit *y* (Yes).
If you run into a problem installing or upgrading, you may need to go into your `~/.emacs.d/elpa/` directory and delete packages that are installed multiple times. This can happen when the install times out (see [Known Issues](#known-issues)).
## Development
[https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa](https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa)
Contributions are welcome. Currently, the builder only supports
packages using git, subversion, mercurial, and darcs. This covers
most of the packages that I am interested in.