Publish to MELPA? about emacs24-starter-kit HOT 6 CLOSED

The starter kit pre-dates integration of ELPA into core Emacs. Also, while the starter kit does provide some ELPA setup, I do agree the option for a package would be nice. I don't have the time currently to write the Makefile rules to build a package, however I'm happy to merge such a change. The packaging section of the Makefile in my emacs-web-server [1] should provide a good template for such an addition. I should be able to get to this at some point next month if there's no pull requests before then.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Eric

[1] https://github.com/eschulte/emacs-web-server/blob/master/Makefile#L29

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Thanks, I'll take a look

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Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to do this any time soon, sorry about that :-/=

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I just added this to the Makefile in e59a2fb, and submitted a pull request to MELPA melpa/melpa#2227.

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Great - I look forward to trying it out!

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So how should I load the starter kit once I install through MELPA instead of git?

For now I've written my own init.el and modified the hook function as follows:

;; load the starter kit from the `after-init-hook' so all packages are loaded
(add-hook 'after-init-hook
 `(lambda ()
    ;; remember this directory
    (setq starter-kit-dir
          (file-name-as-directory
            (package-desc-dir (cadr (assq 'literate-starter-kit package-alist)))))
    ;; only load org-mode later if we didn't load it just now
    ,(unless (and (getenv "ORG_HOME")
                  (file-directory-p (expand-file-name "lisp"
                                                      (getenv "ORG_HOME"))))
       '(require 'org))
    ;; load up the starter kit
    (org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name "starter-kit.org" starter-kit-dir))))

;;; init.el ends here

It works but I wonder if it is necessary to revert package-user-dir to its original value.

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