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29.3; package buglet

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To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72160: closed (29.3; package buglet)
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:23:02 +0000

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From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.3; package buglet
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:16:49 -0500

Strings and symbols should be equally acceptable package designators.

(use-package 'xr) ; (wrong-type-argument symbolp 'xr)
Should work like (use-package "xr")

(package-install "xr") ; (error "Package ‘xr’ is unavailable")
Should work like (package-install 'xr)
instead of erring with that awfully misleading error message.

		Peace
			--Devon

In GNU Emacs 29.3 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, NS appkit-1671.60
 Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G9323)) of 2024-03-24 built on
 builder10-14.lan
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1671
System Description:  Mac OS X 10.14.6

Configured using:
 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=10000
 -DDARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT' --with-x-toolkit=no'

Configured features:
ACL GLIB GMP GNUTLS JPEG JSON LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER
PNG RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Memory information:
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 (strings 32 50442 1886)
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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>
Cc: 72160-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72160: 29.3; package buglet
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 19:22:05 -0800

Version: 31.1

Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net> writes:

> Strings and symbols should be equally acceptable package designators.
>
> (use-package 'xr) ; (wrong-type-argument symbolp 'xr)
> Should work like (use-package "xr")

I can see an argument in favor of more DWIM here, because this is
supposed to be a _help_ for configuring Emacs.  Why not make it as
helpful as possible?

On the other hand, probably a better error message is all that is
needed, and it will help keep things consistent and less confusing
across examples and documentation in the wild.

So I have made this have a better error on master (commit 38782e684bf),
and similarly when using a quoted symbol:

String where there should be a symbol.  Hint: say this instead:
‘(use-package foo ...)’

> (package-install "xr") ; (error "Package ‘xr’ is unavailable")
> Should work like (package-install 'xr)
> instead of erring with that awfully misleading error message.

I was considering just improving the error message, however
`package-upgrade` already accepts either a symbol or a string.

So I changed this function to accept a string also, to be more
consistent (commit 735eace97b8).

With that, I'm closing this bug report.

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