Package on MELPA

[Remillard]

I think there might be a problem with how the MATLAB mode package is setup for MELPA. I honestly don't remember how I installed it, because list-packages is no longer working with matlab-mode however it's currently present in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/matlab-mode-202405221.1748.

If I go to list-packages it shows matlab-mode 20240521.1748 dependency Major mode for MATLAB(R) dot-m files. So far so good.

However hitting enter on that line to bring up the package details produces the following error:

Opening input file: No such file or directory, c:/Users/<myname>/.emacs.d/elpa/matlab-mode-20240521.1748/matlab-mode.el

It's clearly expecting a file named after the package and not finding it. It would be nice if this package played nicely with MELPA's package requirements (one of which certainly seems to be an *.el file named after the mode itself.)

Not wildly critical. I'm considering removing it from the ELPA directory and putting it in site-lisp downloaded from the repo, but figured it ought to be reported that it's got a problem with the automatic way of installing it.

[ouboub]

>> "MN" == Mark Norton ***@***.***> writes:

Hi

I think there might be a problem with how the MATLAB mode package is setup for MELPA. I honestly don't remember how I installed it, because `list-packages` is no longer working with `matlab-mode` however it's currently present in `~/.emacs.d/elpa/matlab-mode-202405221.1748`.

Thanks for the message. Well since you opened an issue on github you are aware that this is new site. The MELPA recipe still points to the old sourceforge repository, but since structure of repository has changed with the last commits, we need to modify the recipe file accordingly. Currently there is an email exchange with the MELPA maintainer where we discuss what to do. I hope to settle this issue in the coming days. PS we are also considering having MATLAB emacs in ELPA. Although we have the all the FSF paper signed, we did not even start. But once this is done we have to think whether we want it in ELPA and MELPA Regards Uwe Brauer

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[Remillard]

Actually I wasn't sure to be honest. The source history of the Emacs MATLAB mode while searching is a little murky. There was a Mathworks post about a decade ago about how to get it started, and then I started looking for more information about 2-3 weeks ago as my MATLAB usage spiked for work so I have been trying to check a few things. It all crystallized when I was trying to unbind M-s (on Windows, unfortunately, we no longer have console MATLAB, curses Mathworks!) and I used that for something else. So, using use-package and unbinding that way was causing the error that it couldn't find it, then I poked at list-package and that very much highlighted the error, and figured I'd pass it along.

Anyhow, very glad it's being taken care of. I think it's a valuable mode. Just wish I had better options for integration under Windows (and no, WSL isn't an option at this time, though I've explored that a bit to see if I could get our MATLAB installation to work there).

As far as ELPA/MELPA -- honestly I have no opinion. I have both setup as package repos and from my user perspective, it's kind of academic where it ends up as long as I can get to it, so I have no advice there.

Thanks for doing the hard work of maintaining!

[ouboub]

>> "MN" == Mark Norton ***@***.***> writes: Actually I wasn't sure to be honest. The source history of the Emacs MATLAB mode while searching is a little murky. There was a Mathworks post about a decade ago about how to get it started, and then I started looking for more information about 2-3 weeks ago as my MATLAB usage spiked for work so I have been trying to check a few things. It all crystallized when I was trying to unbind M-s (on Windows, unfortunately, we no longer have console MATLAB, curses Mathworks!)

Well I am using Ubuntu and occasionally MacOS. I try to avoid Windows as much as I can and I do remember that maybe 10 years ago or more, matlab-shell (started from emacs) sort of worked in Windows. Right now I can't tell and it seems that is not the case, one reason more not even to consider windows. There was a project trying to bring UNIX tools to windows Cygwin, but I think even in this environment, the matlab-shell did not work.

and I used that for something else. So, using `use-package` and unbinding that way was causing the error that it couldn't find it, then I poked at `list-package` and that very much highlighted the error, and figured I'd pass it along.

I have to admit that although I do use the package system, the packages that are essential to me, like auctex and matlab, I compile myself, directly pulling the latest changes from the repository.

Anyhow, very glad it's being taken care of. I think it's a valuable mode. Just wish I had better options for integration under Windows (and no, WSL isn't an option at this time, though I've explored that a bit to see if I could get our MATLAB installation to work there).

I have not heard from Jonas, but he told us that he is very busy. So maybe I push a change to the sourceforge repository that might fix the problem you encountered, at least that is my hope, since Jonas told us, the our sourceforge repository does not comply the expected MELPA convention. I will discuss this subject shortly with the others.

As far as ELPA/MELPA -- honestly I have no opinion. I have both setup as package repos and from my user perspective, it's kind of academic where it ends up as long as I can get to it, so I have no advice there.

I am also talking about my own experience. I find it confusing as a user that a package is both in MELPA and ELPA and I am not sure what is the most recent.

Thanks for doing the hard work of maintaining!

You are welcome but the real contributions, code wise, are done mostly by Eric and John. Uwe

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