[Support]: automatically rebuilding packages

[progfolio]

Is this the correct way to tell Elpaca to rebuild a package on every init?

(add-hook 'elpaca-after-init-hook (lambda () (elpaca-rebuild 'my-package t)))

Originally posted by @suconakh in #22 (comment)

[progfolio]

I would not recommend doing it that way.
elpaca-after-init-hook will run after the package has already been loaded. So you will end up with the older version of the package loaded despite the rebuild. It's also wasteful in that it will rebuild no matter whether the package has changed or not. Another approach is to add a file or per-directory variable which rebuilds the package when it is saved.

For example:

(add-hook 'after-save-hook
          (defun my/rebuild (interactive) (elpaca-rebuild 'example))
          nil 'local)

[suconakh]

This will work for me, thanks!