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unable to run code with a different version #51
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Well, is it installed? Is it in
Basically, Eldev cannot do magic, you have to have Emacs of that version installed. It can be named whatever, it's just a name, e.g. |
Okay, makes sense. I assumed that since eldev handles package retrieval and installation, it might also handle installing and keeping track of versions of emacs. Since it doesn't, I guess I have some additional work to do. Thanks. What are the odds we can add a feature for eldev to retrieve/install multiple emacs versions? It might be able to piggyback on top of evm ? |
Doesn't sound likely, because this seems to be very difficult to do across various supported OSes. If you want you can try creating a PR, I'd be willing to accept e.g. "this doesn't work on Windows", but even then I'd estimate this to be extremely complicated.
Maybe, I never tried. Personally, I have installed a few versions of Emacs from Git and manually renamed
Fair enough, never looked at it from this angle. I will add a couple of sentences to the documentation to clear possible confusion. |
…e to be preinstalled and are *not* installed by Eldev itself (issue #51).
Thank you. I cannot solve this, but at least I improved documentation to avoid further confusion. |
By the way, there is now |
Oh that is awesome, thank you !
…On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 3:25 PM Paul Pogonyshev ***@***.***> wrote:
By the way, there is now eldev docker command that might be what you need.
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Hi! I am using eldev 0.9.2 .
According to the documentation I should be able to do this:
% EMACS=emacs27.2 eldev test
But i get this error:
This also goes wrong if I try
EMACS=emacs25
which is the example. Am I doing something wrong?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: