Fixes #3379 - use emacs version specific elpa directories #4312
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Let ROOT represent the spacemacs root directory. Spacemacs installs packages into ROOT/elpa directory. This is problematic for those who use multiple versions of emacs, e.g., emacs 24 and 25 or even emacs 24.3 and 24.5. This is because the byte compiled files may not be compatible from one version of emacs to another. Hence it is important to use separate directories to house byte compiled files for different versions of emacs. That is why directories such as ROOT/elpa-24.5 and ROOT/elpa-25.0 are proposed instead of ROOT/elpa.
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Similar to #3384 (if one get merged, the other one should be closed) |
This was referenced Dec 28, 2015
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Don't forget about rollbacks - they should also be separated by version. That said, I'm not sure my PR handles rollbacks perfectly (IIRC there was some issue, maybe I'll get back to it sometime). |
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After merging #3384 I'm closing this one. |
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Let ROOT represent the spacemacs root directory. Spacemacs installs
packages into ROOT/elpa directory. This is problematic for those who use
multiple versions of emacs, e.g., emacs 24 and 25 or even emacs 24.3 and
24.5. This is because the byte compiled files may not be compatible from
one version of emacs to another. Hence it is important to use separate
directories to house byte compiled files for different versions of
emacs. That is why directories such as ROOT/elpa-24.5 and ROOT/elpa-25.0
are proposed instead of ROOT/elpa.